OBJECT-ORIENTED DATA HANDLER FOR SEQUENCE-ANALYSIS SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

We report an object-oriented data handler and supplementary tools for the development of molecular genetics application software for various sequence analyses. Our data handler has a flexible and expandable for mat that supports the most common data types for molecular genetic sof twave. New data types can be constructed in an object-oriented manner from the basic units. The data handler includes an object library, a f ormat-converting program and a viewer that can visualize simultaneousl y the data contained in several files to construct a general picture f rom separate data. This software has been implemented on an IBM PC-com patible personal computer.