Creating a new algorithm

Most of the algorithms in OpenMS share the following base classes:

• ProgressLogger is used to report the progress of the algorithm.
• DefaultParamHandler is used to make the handling of parameters (and their defaults) easy.
  In most cases, you will not even need accessors for single parameters.

The interfaces of an algorithm depend on the data structures it works on. For an algorithm that works on peak data, a non-template class should be used that provides template methods operating on MSExperiment or MSSpectrum, no matter which peak type is used. See PeakPickerCWT for an example.

For algorithms that do not work on peak data, templates should be avoided.