Hosted project in the spotlight: Sight

J.W. Bizzaro • January 28, 2003

Hosted project in the spotlight: Sight

The developers of the Sight project recently switched to Bioinformatics.Org from SourceForge.net and Savannah.gnu.org, as the primary location for project management. Having been developed at the Current Genetics Group at Ulm University, Germany, the project comes to us at a highly evolved stage: version 2.1.0.

Sight tackles the very timely problem of distributed workflow (there are several other projects at Bioinformatics.Org which address this problem) and does so using ``Internet robots.'' From the Sight home page: ``Bioinformatical tools on remote servers can be used more effectively by creating a group of specialized internet robots. A universal package, including specialized code generators and reusable library significantly facilitates this task. We created and tested the java-based package Sight, including code generator set and library. The code generators assist in creating new web robots that simulate filling of web forms and that analyse the received response. Sight builds the entire application without programming, realizing requested data flow diagram. The generated web robots can also work as parts of the user-written program. The library provides date-sensitive databases of the previously received responses and strategies of connecting the remote server. Integration of the locally installed executables is not much different from the integration of the web services.''

For those who want the immediate satisfaction of screenshots, here's one from the user's manual (red arrow indicates workflow):
http://bioinformatics.org/jSight/Doc/images/Sightx_9.gif

Sight home page:
http://bioinformatics.org/jSight/

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