I just made the first announcement about Loci at freshmeat.net. I know we don't have much to show, but I intended this to be a general announcement about the project. In the future, we can just post "loci-core X.X.X", "loci-daemon X.X.X", etc. In just over an hour, the page got hit as much as it does in a whole day :-) Here is what I posted: The Loci Project (alpha) J.W. Bizzaro - July 08th 1999, 23:05 EST Loci is a network-distributed system of clients and servers ("loci") for computational biology research. The loci are data, high-level widgets, analysis programs (command-line), data translators, vector drawing programs, and any combination of these. They are represented as nodes on a graphical "work flow diagram" (WFD) and can be connected in a manner akin to Unix piping. In a sense, Loci is a graphical scripting language where users can build, customize and execute their own scriptlets via the WFD. Plus, connecting loci across the Internet, can form world-wide collaboratives and an infinitely extensible set of loci. Numerous development tools used include Python, GTK+ and the GNOME environment: CORBA, DOM, XML and so on. Although Loci is being developed for computational biology (for which it is highly suited), the system's core is not dependent on a particular data type. THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE! Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu Boston College Chemistry http://www.uml.edu/Dept/Chem/Bizzaro/ --