Here is an abstract under 50 words: -------------- Piper is a system for creating and managing links between Internet-distributed components, such as networks, programs, files, and widgets. Components can reside remotely, on higher performance and capacity computers, while only representations reside locally. Links can represent protocol-independent data flow, procedural steps, and relationships. http://bioinformatics.org/piper -------------- Do you think we should keep the URL in there? Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+