Designing a Chemical Script Editor in Grid environment with DLTK

Abstract

All chemistry software has its own language and provides its corresponding script editor. A complex chemical job running in Grid environment often requires different chemistry software’s collaboration. The chemist edits computational chemistry program locally, then submits them to the Grid environment. Therefore, chemists need to use appropriate chemical editors for syntax checking when modifying chemical scripts. This process would require installing several kinds of chemistry software locally, which would be time-consuming and inconsequence. This paper proposes a solution, a Chemical Script Editor supporting several chemical script languages, to deal with this issue. The Chemical Script Editor is not only multifunctional and multi-lingual but also simple and easy to install. What’s more, the Chemical Script Editor caters to the dynamic characteristics of Grid environment perfectly. This paper would use a new framework -DLTK- to generate the Chemical Script Editor as a PLUG-INS to Eclipse platform.