This software offers unrestricted use of portable, public domain libraries at no cost.
The NCBI C++ Toolkit is a free and portable software that offers public domain libraries. It comes with no restrictions on use and works well with Unix, MS Windows, and Mac OS platforms. The software offers a bunch of libraries such as the Networking and Interprocess Communication (IPC) library with IOSTREAM adaptors, CGI and Fast-CGI Library, HTML Generation Library, SQL Database Access Library, C++ wrapper library for BerkeleyDB, C++ IOSTREAM Adaptor/Wrapper Library, GZIP and BZ2 C++ Wrapper Library with IOSTREAM adaptors, ASN.1 and XML Serialization Library with C++ Code Generator Tool (datatool), Date and Time Library, File System Function Library, Command-Line Argument, Configuration and Environment Processing Library, Sequence Alignment Algorithms Library, BLAST Engine Library, Biological Sequences Retrieval and Processing Library, Portable FLTK and OpenGL based GUI, and graphic libraries.
Besides the libraries already mentioned, developers can access other useful libraries that are general purpose and biotech-related. These libraries have been developed, maintained, and continuously used in real-life production by hundreds of Web and standalone applications and their programmers (also counted in hundreds).
If you are a C++ developer, you'll find the portable nature of the libraries very useful when building cross-platform applications, even if Bioinformatics isn't your area of specialization. Libraries such as the ones used for CGI/Fast-CGI, HTML, Networking, SQL Database Access, ASN.1, and XML Serialization are quite general purpose and can be used in various applications outside the Bioinformatics problem domain.
The C++ Toolkit undergoes active development with libraries being built every night. The software's source code is freely available through FTP and CVS. The documentation for the C++ Toolkit is also available online in the NCBI Bookshelf format and as a downloadable book in Acrobat's PDF format.
Besides the libraries already mentioned, developers can access other useful libraries that are general purpose and biotech-related. These libraries have been developed, maintained, and continuously used in real-life production by hundreds of Web and standalone applications and their programmers (also counted in hundreds).
If you are a C++ developer, you'll find the portable nature of the libraries very useful when building cross-platform applications, even if Bioinformatics isn't your area of specialization. Libraries such as the ones used for CGI/Fast-CGI, HTML, Networking, SQL Database Access, ASN.1, and XML Serialization are quite general purpose and can be used in various applications outside the Bioinformatics problem domain.
The C++ Toolkit undergoes active development with libraries being built every night. The software's source code is freely available through FTP and CVS. The documentation for the C++ Toolkit is also available online in the NCBI Bookshelf format and as a downloadable book in Acrobat's PDF format.
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