VIPR and the Visual Programming Challenge

The long-term cost of developing and maintaining a computational pipeline that depends upon data integration and sophisticated workflow logic is too high to even contemplate "what if" or ad hoc type queries. In this paper, we introduce a novel application building interface for computational biology research, called VizBuilder, by leveraging a recent query language called BioFlow for life sciences databases. Using VizBuilder, it is now possible to develop ad hoc complex computational biology applications at throw away costs. The underlying query language supports data integration and workflow construction almost transparently and fully automatically, using a best effort approach. Users express their application by drawing it with VizBuilder icons and connecting them in a meaningful way. Completed applications are compiled and translated as BioFlow queries for execution by the data management system LifeDB, for which VizBuilder serves as a front end. We discuss VizBuilder features and functionalities in the context of a real life application after we briefly introduce BioFlow. The architecture and design principles of VizBuilder are also discussed. Finally, we outline future extensions of VizBuilder. To our knowledge, VizBuilder is a unique system that allows visually designing computational biology pipelines involving distributed and heterogeneous resources in an ad hoc manner.

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<title>Reusable framework for Web-based teleoperation</title>

Ghiasi¹,

Keaton²,

Seidl³

et al. 1998

Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies V

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The advent of the World Wide Web presents an opportunity for a wide audience to make use of telemanipulation. Unfortunately, current efforts in Web-based telemanipulation are primarily undertaken by individual groups and lead to a plethora of specific solutions, instead of a general, reusable framework. Because of this, any groups seeking to enter into this field must spend a large amount of time building the interfaces necessary for remote monitoring and manipulation.Our proposed solution to this problem is to build a general framework of Java-based components that allow researchers to focus on their particular applications instead of building the infrastructure for Web interaction themselves. These components only require researchers to build an interface to our framework, instead of implementing a complete end-to-end solution. This framework is designed to enable the manipulation of simple to medium complexity devices via the World Wide Web. Example application domains include small robotic vehicles and robotic arms.

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VIPR and the Visual Programming Challenge

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