GRAPHICAL INTERFACE COMPONENTRY FOR GENOME INFORMATICS

描述(改编自《调查者摘要》)：图形用户 接口在基因组信息学领域中广泛存在，并且 被认为是许多应用程序成功的关键。目前，一个 开发人员必须选择是从头开始创建，还是在内部工作 大规模、高度集成的系统，可能会强制采用单片设计 而且涉及到高昂的启动成本。调查人员正在开发一种工具包 对于基于特定于域的外集件集的概念的界面设计， 其中，小部件是专门关注 图形显示，隐藏放置、绘图、运动、 在可能的范围内来自应用程序员的交互等。 使用TCL/TK图形用户界面设计系统，调查人员 有原型的染色体、地图和序列小部件，以及 对话框和实用程序的集合，这些对话框和实用程序应该促进 以一致的“外观”与小型应用程序通信。这个 调查人员建议：改进现有的小部件和对话框，使它们 显著提高了健壮性和通用性；设计新的小部件、对话框 支持更广泛的应用程序的实用程序和数据库接口； 重新实现以提高效率和兼容性，创建经过编译和高度兼容的 针对Unix、Macintosh和PC平台以及 其他软件环境，包括WWW；在中创建应用程序 与生物学家合作，作为示范并推动小工具设计； 并支持和归档小部件、对话框、实用程序和应用程序 用于软件共享的存储库。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Investigator's Abstract): Graphical user interfaces are widespread in the field of genome informatics, and are considered key to the success of many application programs. Currently, a developer must choose between creating one from scratch, or working within large-scale, highly integrated systems that may impose monolithic designs and involve high start-up costs. The investigators are developing a toolkit for interface design based on the notion of a domain-specific widget set, where widgets are high level objects that are concerned exclusively with graphical display, hiding the details of placement, drawing, motion, interaction, etc. from the application programmer to the extent possible. Using the Tcl/Tk graphical user interface design system, the investigators have prototyped chromosome, map, and sequence widgets, as well as a number of dialogs and utilities that should promote the development of communicating small applications with a consistent "look and feel." The investigators propose to: improve existing widgets and dialogs, making them significantly more robust and versatile; design new widgets, dialogs, utilities, and database interfaces to support a wider range of applications; reimplement for efficiency and compatibility, creating a compiled and highly tuned widget set for UNIX, Macintosh, and PC platforms, as well as additional software environments including the WWW; create applications in collaboration with biologists, as demonstrations and to drive widget design; and support and archive widgets, dialogs, utilities, and applications in a repository for software sharing.