[Pipet Devel] abstract

[Gary Van Domselaar]

"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote:
> 
> Locians,
> 
> I going to submit the following abstract for the Open Source/Open Science
> conference, ASAP.  Please comment on any corrections needed.  Regarding names,
> listed are those who have contributed to the DESIGN of Loci over the months.
> This does not include other forms of contribution, otherwise the list would be
> much longer.

No changes.

> 
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> THE LOCI PROJECT
> 
> J.W. Bizzaro*, Justin Bradford, Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga, Gary Van Domselaar,
> Alan J. Williams, Rahul Jain & Tim Triche, Jr.
> 
> *To whom correspondence should be addressed
> 
> The Open Lab
> 28 Pope Street
> Hudson, MA 01749
> 
> Abstract
> 
> Loci is a network-distributed system of clients and servers ("loci") for data
> processing.  Client types include programs that process data (perform analysis,
> translation and visualization).  (These loci are not part of the system but
> come as extensions, making Loci independent of data-type and thus
> general-purpose.)  Other clients include control structure (e.g., if and while)
> and graphical user interface (GUI) loci.  All loci are represented as nodes
> in a graphical "Work Flow Diagram" (WFD) and joined by lines that depict
> network connections.  The system therefore provides a workspace for connecting
> and combining loci to form a graphical scripting language.  The
> network-distributed nature of Loci deals with large datasets in a unique way:
> GUI loci reside on a local workstation while compute-intensive data-processing
> loci execute remotely on high-performance computers.  The joining of loci
> across the Internet can also be used to form world-wide collaboratives and
> bring an infinitely extensible set of loci to the user.  Numerous development
> tools used include Python, GTK+ and the GNOME environment: CORBA, DOM, XML and
> so on.
> 
> More information can be found at http://bioinformatics.org/loci/
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> 
> Jeff
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