Third Party Tools and Libraries

Third Party Packages

Currently NCBI Genome Workbench uses the following third party tools and libraries:

Package	Comment
BitMagic	C++ library of compressed bitsets and succinct containers
Boost Test	Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries
GL2PS	OpenGL to PostScript printing library
libbzip2	File compression program
libjpeg	Library for handling the JPEG (JFIF) image format
libpng	Official PNG reference library
libtiff	Library provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data
libungif	A library and utilities for processing GIFs
libuv	Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O
libxml2	XML C parser and toolkit
libxslt	XSLT C library
LZO	Portable lossless data compression library
Nghttp2	HTTP/2 C Library
PCRE	Set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5
SQLite3	C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine
wxWidgets	C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages.
zlib	A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library