AppLab 0.91 alpha

AppLab is a general purpose application wrapper based on CORBA and Java, but with a primary focus on sequence analysis tools in bioinformatics. The main goal is to develop a distributed object system which provides an easy-to-use and well-defined access to a large set of existing command-line-driven applications of different types. In summary:

• AppLab defines the IDL interfaces for invoking and controlling the remote applications and for browsing their results,
• AppLab implements a mechanism making it possible to plug-in new applications without any additional programming effort (source code generator), and
• Applab is easily extensible for the problem-specific application sets (such as special data structures needed in bioinformatics).

Availability

AppLab is still in alpha phase, but a public version can be downloaded at the European BioInformatics Institute. The AppLab home page gives further information and has some demos. Any comments and feedback are more than welcome.

Information supplied by: Martin Senger

Resources and further information

• European Bioinformatics Institute
  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/
• Industry Support Programme
  http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/
• AppLab home page
  http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/applab/
• CORBA information
  http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~corba/

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