Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Conventions
- Welcome to the EMBOSS Developer’s Guide
- 1 Getting started
- 2 Your first EMBOSS application
- 3 Software development under EMBOSS
- 4 ACD file development
- 5 C programming
- 6 Programming with AJAX
- 7 Quality assurance
- 8 Application documentation standards
- 9 A complete application: seqret
- 10 Incorporating third-party applications
- Appendix A ACD syntax reference
- Appendix B C programming libraries
- Appendix C C coding standards
- Appendix D Code documentation standards
- Appendix E Resources
- Index
1 - Getting started
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Conventions
- Welcome to the EMBOSS Developer’s Guide
- 1 Getting started
- 2 Your first EMBOSS application
- 3 Software development under EMBOSS
- 4 ACD file development
- 5 C programming
- 6 Programming with AJAX
- 7 Quality assurance
- 8 Application documentation standards
- 9 A complete application: seqret
- 10 Incorporating third-party applications
- Appendix A ACD syntax reference
- Appendix B C programming libraries
- Appendix C C coding standards
- Appendix D Code documentation standards
- Appendix E Resources
- Index
Summary
Licence information
EMBOSS is licensed for use by everyone under the GNU Software licences. The AJAX and NUCLEUS libraries are released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). The applications are released under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). If you plan to develop proprietary software using the libraries you should read the full licensing conditions:
GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html)
The licences were chosen to provides maximum flexibility and encourage development. They give you freedom in software development, so long as you preserve those freedoms for others.
General Public Licence (GPL)
The GPL allows you to freely modify, copy and distribute the application source code so long as the source code of the derived work is licensed under GPL and made available. This means you can freely extend and improve the EMBOSS applications.
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- EMBOSS Developer's GuideBioinformatics Programming, pp. 1 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011