An Affordable Approach to Interactive Desktop Molecular Modeling
T.E. Ferrin, G.S. Couch, C.C. Huang, E.F. Pettersen, and R. Langridge
Computer Graphics Laboratory
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0446
ABSTRACT
The amazing revolution in
computer hardware performance
and cost reduction
has yet to be realized with computer software.
In fact,
application software today is often
more expensive and less reliable
than the hardware.
New enhancements in software development
techniques such as object oriented programming
and interactive graphics-based user interface design
may finally be having a significant impact
on the time-to-market and reliability
of these application programs.
We discuss our experiences using one such
set of software development tools available
on the NeXT workstation and describe the
effort required to port our MidasPlus
molecular modeling package to the NeXT workstation.
A reprint of this paper is
available on request.
tef@cgl.ucsf.edu / October 1990