Genome Workbench was developed entirely in-house at NCBI and makes use of the NCBI C++ ToolKit.
The C++ ToolKit provides a convenient and flexible cross-platform API for managing system internals, database connections, network sockets, and the NCBI data model. In addition, the C++ ToolKit provides the Object Manager, which abstracts handling of sequences and sequence-related objects.
Genome Workbench can display sequence data in many ways, including graphical sequence views, various alignment views, phylogenetic tree views, and tabular views of data. It can also align your private data to data in public databases, display your data in the context of public data, and retrieve BLAST results.
Note: Genome Workbench is cross-platform and it works on Windows 2000/XP, Linux, MacOS X, and various flavors of Unix.
Requirements:
· NCBI C++ ToolKit
