"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote: > > Loci had a fancy visual scripting shell, which GMS and > (to some extent) Overflow lacked One other thing: Regarding the separation of the UIL from the DL (via RPC), and allowing multiple UIL's per DL, that came from Loci. FYI. Brad Chapman actually developed the DL. I started Loci from the GUI end (I like developing user interfaces), and when Brad came along, he put some meat behind it with the DL. From then on, we worked on separate code bases (except Brad also did a lot to the Loci UI). So the modularization that you see is really an artifact of the different code bases and coders: UIL <------------> DL <------------> BL <-------------> PL Jeff <----------> Brad <----------> Jarl <----------> Jean-Marc Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "All those scientists--they're all alike! They say they're working for us, but what they really want is to rule the world!" -- Angry Villager, Young Frankenstein --