Prototyping and Development Environment

Integrated environment — Explore biological data in an environment that integrates programming and visualization. Create reports and plots with the built-in functions for mathematics, graphics, and statistics.

Open environment — Access the source code for the toolbox functions. The toolbox includes many of the basic bioinformatics functions you will need to use, and it includes prototypes for some of the more advanced functions. Modify these functions to create your own custom solutions.

Interactive programming language — Test your ideas by typing functions that are interpreted interactively with a language whose basic data element is an array. The arrays do not require dimensioning and allow you to solve many technical computing problems,

Using matrices for sequences or groups of sequences allows you to work efficiently and not worry about writing loops or other programming controls.

Programming tools — Use a visual debugger for algorithm development and refinement and an algorithm performance profiler to accelerate development.