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Program Object Toolkit Access your own programs as Daylight objects The Program Object Toolkit supports a new object class, the program object, which represents a program reading arbitrary input and producing output. Program objects are allocated and de-allocated like any other object. They process input and output objects as sequences of (possibly binary) strings. This toolkit is the least chemically-oriented of all the toolkits offered by Daylight. Functional (but primitive) program objects can be implemented using utility functions supplied with the SMILESTM toolkit. However, the Program Object Toolkit provides a commercial-quality, machine-independent, secure, and supported implementation. Objects supported by this Toolkit include: Program - object representing an external program This Toolkit can be used to: Access an external program robustly and efficiently Parallelize for increased performance