Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-sjtt6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-20T12:18:50.670Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

3 - Software development under EMBOSS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Jon C. Ison ,
Peter M. Rice  and
Alan J. Bleasby
Jon C. Ison
Affiliation:
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
Peter M. Rice
Affiliation:
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
Alan J. Bleasby
Affiliation:
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
Get access

Summary

Introduction

Software development and maintenance under EMBOSS is made easy. EMBOSS has powerful inbuilt functionality which any native application can make use of with little or no additional coding, saving you a great deal of effort. It includes extensive C programming libraries for extending the core functionality and developing new applications. Well-defined processes are in place for key aspects such as quality assurance testing, installation, maintenance and support. General aspects are handled by the EMBOSS developers, leaving you to support the parts specific to your own software.

Inbuilt functionality

Major inbuilt areas of functionality include:

  • Support for biological datatypes

  • Support for common file formats

  • Simple database configuration

  • Command line handling

  • Command line qualifiers

  • Sequence and sequence feature specification.

Type
Chapter
Information
EMBOSS Developer's Guide
Bioinformatics Programming
 , pp. 51 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×