SUMMARY GView is a Java application for viewing and examining prokaryotic genomes in a circular or linear context. It accepts standard sequence file formats and an optional style specification file to generate customizable, publication quality genome maps in bitmap and scalable vector graphics formats. GView features an interactive pan-and-zoom interface, a command-line interface for incorporat...

Supporting multiple views, and the rapid development of usable data analysis tools, are necessary for successful comprehension of any large and complex dataset. Comprehension studies have shown that different views, and the ability to selectively filter data are important. This paper presents research that has been done to address this issue. The main contribution is the development of a framew...

This paper focuses on digitally signing documents as a specific use case for making secure hardware available to a web application. We explore the current options available to implementers and the drawbacks associated with each option. Then we look at the emerging Web Cryptography API developed by the W3C and discover missing functionality needed to implement this use case. Finally, we suggest ...

Hybrid parallel programming with MPI for internode communication in conjunction with a shared-memory programming model to manage intranode parallelism has become a dominant approach to scalable parallel programming. While this model provides a great deal of flexibility and performance potential, it saddles programmers with the complexity of utilizing two parallel programming systems in the same...

Subject matter experts, including pharmacists, pharmacy benefit managers, health researchers and health data analytics specialists, are generally knowledgeable in drug resources, such as RxNorm, and have developed interesting use cases for it. However, processing datasets often requires programming skills, e.g., making calls to a service, such as the RxNorm Application Programming Interface (AP...

Unipept (http://unipept.ugent.be) is a web application that offers a user-friendly way to explore the biodiversity of complex metaproteome samples by providing interactive visualizations. In this article, the updates and changes to Unipept since its initial release are presented. This includes the addition of interactive sunburst and treeview visualizations to the multipeptide analysis, the fou...

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is the most successful paradigm used in programming environments. Some difficulties arise when it is necessary to deal with data stored in a relational database because relational databases do not provide an object-oriented interface to their entities. The most common solution consists in developing a specific interface that guarantees some specific requirement...

The Extensible Problem-Specific Tutor (xPST) system was created to facilitate the creation of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) on existing software and web-based interfaces. This research introduces xPST and describes an exploration of the ease of authoring an xPST tutor for three web-based tasks. Participants demonstrated a quick learning curve and alternated their attentional focus regular...

The Annotation Graph Toolkit is a collection of software supporting the development of annotation tools based on the annotation graph model. The toolkit includes application programming interfaces for manipulating annotation graph data and for importing data from other formats. There are interfaces for the scripting languages Tcl and Python, a database interface, specialized graphical user inte...

The Linked Open Data University of Münster (LODUM) project establishes a university-wide infrastructure to publish university data as Linked Open Data. The main goals are to increase visibility and accessibility of data produced and collected at the university, and to facilitate effective reuse of these data. This includes the goal to ease the development of applications and mashups based on th...