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Scopira: an open source C++ framework for biomedical data analysis applications
Author(s) -
Demko Aleksander B.,
Pizzi Nick J.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.915
Subject(s) - porting , computer science , visualization , extensibility , programming language , interface (matter) , software engineering , object oriented programming , graphical user interface , software framework , open source , software , generic programming , data visualization , user interface , software development , data mining , operating system , component based software engineering , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method
Abstract In many biomedical research laboratories, data analysis and visualization algorithms are typical prototypes using an interpreted programming language. If performance becomes an issue, they are ported to C and integrated with interpreted systems, not fully utilizing object‐oriented software development. This paper presents an overview of Scopira, an open source C++ framework suitable for biomedical data analysis and visualization. Scopira provides high‐performance end‐to‐end application development features, in the form of an extensible C++ library. This library provides general programming utilities, numerical matrices and algorithms, parallelization facilities, and graphical user interface elements. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.