The NCBI C++ Toolkit Book

National Center for Biotechnology Information (US): Bethesda (MD); 2004-2022.

Contents

• Book Information
• Part 1. Overview
  • Introduction to the C++ Toolkit
  • Getting Started
• Part 2. Development Framework
  • Retrieve the Source Code (GitHub, Subversion and FTP)
  • Configure, Build and Use the Toolkit with CMake
  • Configure, Build, and Use the Toolkit with autoconf/PTB
  • Working with Makefiles (autoconf/PTB)
  • Project Creation and Management (autoconf/PTB)
  • Programming Policies and Guidelines
• Part 3. C++ Toolkit Library Reference
  • Portability, Core Functionality and Application Framework
  • Logging and Diagnostics
  • Networking and IPC
  • Database Access Support
  • CGI and Fast-CGI
  • HTML
  • Row-based data processing (TSV, CSV, etc.)
  • Data compression (ZIP, GZIP, BZip2, LZO)
  • Data Serialization (ASN.1, XML, JSON)
  • Biological Sequence Data Model
  • Biological Object Manager
  • Biological Object Manager – Data Loaders
  • BLAST API
  • Access to NCBI data
  • Biological Sequence Alignment
  • GUI and Graphics
  • Using the Boost Unit Test Framework
• Part 4. Wrappers for 3rd-Party Packages
  • XmlWrapp (XML parsing and handling, XSLT, XPath)
  • JsonWrapp (JSON parsing and handling)
• Part 5. Software
  • Debugging, Exceptions, and Error Handling
  • Distributed Computing
  • Applications
  • Examples and Demos
  • C Toolkit Resources for C++ Toolkit Users
• Part 6. Help and Support
  • NCBI C++ Toolkit Source Browser
  • Software Development Tools
  • FAQs, Useful Documentation Links, and Mailing Lists
• Part 7. Library and Applications Configuration
  • Library Configuration
• Miscellaneous
• Appendix - Books and Styles