Other Sites of the Next Generation Tools for Biology Group
The Next Generation Tools for Biology group is dedicated to the development of accessible enabling open source software for research and education in Biology and Biomedicine. Our other projects include the CIPRES portal for phylogenetic inference, the CIPRES Portal V 2.0, and the Workbench Framework. |
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The CIPRES portal offers tools for phylogenetic tree inference. It is focused on high end users: individuals with large data sets who are limited by the computational power of their home resources. It offers tools based on likelihood, parsimony, and Bayesian analysis. The CIPRES portal is created by a collaboration of the NGTB group with several other institutions under the CIPRES project. This project was developed as a partnership with Mark Holder and Peter Midford at the University of Kansas, and Rutger Vos at the University of British Columbia. Soon we will announce the release of a Version 2 CIPRES Portal, built on the Workbench Framework. |
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The Workbench Framework is the software package that enables the scalability of the NGBW and the CIPRES Portal2. It is a modular package designed with the goal of making it easy to add new resources into a workbench area, and to engage the community in the creation of such tools. The most user-accessible part of the Workbench Framework is webtooldev, a utility that allows developers and scientists that use the Workbench Framework (currently the NGBW and the CIPRES Portal V2.0 to create, test, and contribute new interfaces (and edit old ones). The resulting interfaces can be viewed within the SWAMI application, and tested for valid interface conditional logic, and command line generation. The goal of this utility is to allow individuals with specific interests in an existing tool, and creators of new tools to create and modify interfaces. The interfaces validated by webtooldev are compatible with the PISE DTD, and can be easily adapted for use in PISE installations. |
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