Modern bioinformatics and computational biology are fields of study driven by the availability of effective software required for conducting appropriate research tasks. Apart from providing reliable and fast implementations of different data analysis algorithms, these software applications should also be clear and easy to use through proper user interfaces, providing appropriate data management and visualization capabilities. In this regard, the user experience obtained by interacting with these applications via their Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) is a key factor for their final success and real utility for researchers. Despite the existence of different packages and applications focused on advanced data visualization, there is a lack of specific libraries providing pertinent GUI components able to help scientific bioinformatics software developers. To that end, this paper introduces GC4S, a bioinformatics-oriented collection of high-level, extensible, and reusable Java GUI elements specifically designed to speed up bioinformatics software development. Within GC4S, developers of new applications can focus on the specific GUI requirements of their projects, relying on GC4S for generalities and abstractions. GC4S is free software distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License and both source code and documentation are publicly available at http://www.sing-group.org/gc4s

现代生物信息学和计算生物学是受到进行适当研究任务所需的有效软件的驱动所驱动的研究领域。除了提供可靠和快速的不同数据分析算法实现之外，这些软件应用程序还应该通过适当的用户界面清晰易用，并提供适当的数据管理和可视化功能。在这方面，通过它们的图形用户界面（GUI）与这些应用程序进行交互所获得的用户体验是其最终成功和对研究人员真正有用的关键因素。尽管存在着不同的针对高级数据可视化的软件包和应用程序，缺乏提供相关GUI组件的特定库，这些组件能够帮助科学的生物信息学软件开发人员。为此，本文介绍了GC4S，这是一种面向生物信息学的高级，可扩展和可重用的Java GUI元素集合，专门设计用于加速生物信息学软件的开发。在GC4S中，新应用程序的开发人员可以依靠GC4S的一般性和抽象性来专注于其项目的特定GUI要求。GC4S是根据GNU较小通用公共许可证的条款分发的免费软件，其源代码和文档均可在http://www.sing-group.org/gc4s上公开获得。和可重用的Java GUI元素，这些元素专门设计用于加速生物信息学软件的开发。在GC4S中，新应用程序的开发人员可以依靠GC4S的一般性和抽象性来专注于其项目的特定GUI要求。GC4S是根据GNU较小通用公共许可证的条款分发的免费软件，其源代码和文档均可在http://www.sing-group.org/gc4s上公开获得。和可重用的Java GUI元素，这些元素专门设计用于加速生物信息学软件的开发。在GC4S中，新应用程序的开发人员可以依靠GC4S的一般性和抽象性来专注于其项目的特定GUI要求。GC4S是根据GNU较小通用公共许可证的条款分发的免费软件，其源代码和文档均可在http://www.sing-group.org/gc4s上公开获得。