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GENII-LIN: a new object-oriented interface for the GENII code.

M Sumini·F Teodori·N Cantoro
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GENII-LIN is a new object-oriented interface for GENII, a well-known analysis tool for the health impact evaluation of accidental or chronic release of radionuclides to the environment. GENII-LIN has been developed under the Linux OS, chosen because it is a stable, reliable and open source. The suite codes that constitute the original GENII simulation kernel have been re-implemented and built, using the G77, the Fortran 77 module of the GCC collection. The code modules and the flow of data among them are at present fully controlled by a management interface written in C++, which is the core of the package. GENII-LIN comes with a new graphical user interface (GUI), built using the QT libraries by Trolltech. Through the wizard-like GUI, the user has full control over the code and can easily handle both the input and the output files.

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M Sumini, F Teodori, N Cantoro. 2005. GENII-LIN: a new object-oriented interface for the GENII code.. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd%2Fnci025

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