Quick Way to Port Existing C/C++ Chemoinformatics Toolkits to the Web Using Emscripten

Emscripten
is a special open source compiler that compiles C and
C++ code into JavaScript. By utilizing this compiler, some typical
C/C++ chemoinformatics toolkits and libraries are quickly ported to
to web. The compiled JavaScript files have sizes similar to native
programs, and from a series of constructed benchmarks, the performance
of the compiled JavaScript codes is also close to that of the native
codes and is better than the handwritten JavaScript codes. Therefore,
we believe that Emscripten is a feasible and practical tool for reusing
existing C/C++ codes on the web, and many other chemoinformatics or
molecular calculation software tools can also be easily ported by
Emscripten.