Application programming interface

It is important to note that the draft standard only proposes a format model. A standard or a doeument describing the application programming interfaces is necessary to implement it on a given medium. 

This standard proposal is limited to a format model. So, as it had been pointed out earlier, the implementation of this format requires some complementary work, which can partly be standardized. The definition of the Application Programming Interfaces (A.P.l.) could become a standard in the future. Nonetheless, this would require the creation of a new ad hoc group, with different technical competences. 

The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) Application Programming Interface (API) (7), OpenBabel (8), or CORINA... 

While the overall development used a Windows application programming interface, incompatibilities exist across platforms (Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X). For this reason, we opted to use a more standardized interface using HTML that would be more accessible, at the cost of a few features (pairing text to certain times in the videos and full-screen video). Aside from these two features, the HTML interface is identical to the enhanced interface, using the same color scheme and layout and containing the same content. 

Out-of-the-box HTS informatics software solutions with integrated functionality of all three operational components (HTS data, plate and sample tracking, chemical structures) include ActivityBase from IDBS, Assay Explorer from Symyx (former MDL), BioAssay Enterprise from CambridgeSoft, Accord Enterprise (Accelrys), Chemlnnovation (CBIS), and others. However, we recommend careful evaluation of functionality, usability, architecture, and availability of a published application programming interface (API) if the system is to be integrated with other informatics components. Because the commercial solutions have different strengths, one answer is to combine different components or build certain functionalities in-house. 

Traditionally data, properties, information etc has been stored in files on computer disks. More recently, it has become common practice on Macintosh computers, when using Microsoft software or some UNIX applications, to use either extensions to the file name or the first few bytes in the file (or another file) to indicate some aspects of the data, for example that it is suitable for Microsoft Excel. While this approach is practical to indicate something about files containing columns of data, it is not appropriate to store information about the values in cells in spreadsheet or how it relates to data in other columns. This requires a relational database such as ORACLE, and for performance reasons the values in the cells may only be accessed via the ORACLE API (Application Programming Interface) or SQL (Standard Query Language), in other words, it is suggested that relational databases such as ORACLE should be viewed as sophisticated file systems which allow the values to be organised, efficiently stored, rapidly retrieved etc. 

To be coupled via OASIS4, the component models have to include specific calls to the OAS1S4 PSMlLe software layer. The OAS1S4 PSMlLe Application Programming Interface (API) was kept as close as possible to OAS1S3 PSMlLe... 

Programmatic access through application program interfaces (APIs)... 

Tooikit. A collection of computer routines that each perform one or a small number of information management tasks. The routines are provided as a library and they can be incorporated into custom user-written application programs to carry out tasks that ordinary application programs may not perform. The interface between the toolkit routines and the user-written program is referred to as the Application Programming Interface, or API. 

In order to make it easier for third-party vendors to write applications for Windows, Microsoft provides APIs application programming interfaces) for Windows 3.x, 9x, and 2000. These APIs allow programmers to write applications more easily because Windows itself provides much of the functionality. For instance, when a programmer wants to write a routine that prints out a result, they can simply call printing APIs, instead of writing out the entire print process. This does two things. First, it makes programming more simple and second, it standardizes the way that certain tasks are performed. Almost all print or file save screens in Windows, for example, look about the same because all of them use a standardized API set. 

Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) The MAPI interface is used to control how Windows interacts with messaging applications such as e-mail programs. MAPI makes most of the functions of e-mail transparent and allows programmers to just write the application, not the whole messaging system. 

NetBIOS Acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. In networking, a layer of software, originally developed in 1984 by IBM and Sytek, that links a network operating system with specific network hardware. NetBIOS provides an application program interface (API) with a consistent set of commands for requesting lower-level network services to transmit information from node to node. 

Workflow Management Coalition Workflow management application programming interface (interface 2 3) specification (1998)... 

NEXPERT OBJECT was probably one of the most mature systems concerning the integration capabilities with software on a corporate level. It offered an application programming interface (API) that supports industry standard programming languages, such as C, C-H-, Smalltalk, or LISP. 

An application programming interface (API) is a docnmented set of programming methods that allow a software engineer to interface with software from within his own program. 

In addition to the requirements for data storage and integration, there are also varying requirements for interfaces to the data to support the community. Bench scientists generally require intuitive Web interfaces or click-and-install graphical user interfaces. Application developers within the bioinformatics sector require stable application programming interfaces (APIs) in their preferred language (e.g., Java, Perl, C, C++, or Python). 

A combination of XML and application program interface (API) compliant Java classes can be used to add new modules and, if necessary, define new data types. An installation can then be hand-edited to include the custom extensions. 

Interfacing of products supplied by different vendors by means of a dedicated file system (application program interface). 

A complete application programming interface is available for MMDB as part of the NCBI toolkit, containing a wide variety of C code libraries and applications. Both an ASN.l input/output programming interface layer and a molecular computing layer (MMDB-API) are present in the NCBI toolkit. The NCBI toolkit supports x86 and alpha-based Windows platforms, Macintosh 68K and PowerPC CPUs, and a wide variety of UNIX platforms. The three-dimensional structure database viewer (Cn3D) is an MMDB-API-based application with soince code included in the NCBI toolkit. 

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