"A key deliverable of the CIPRES project is platform-independent software that can be downloaded and installed on a PC, Macintosh computer, or Linux workstation or run on a large supercomputer."
To achieve this deliverable, the CIPRES software team, led by Mark Holder is actively developing software tools to serve practicing systematists (particularly those with large data-sets), computational systematists who implement algorithms, and algorithm designers. The basis for the enabling technology is a flexible, efficient library that allows for cooperation/communication between diverse phylogenetic modules. The libraries will make it possible for developers within the community to easily link their software to the software of other developers.
In addition to providing developer tools, the CIPRES software will enable users by allowing CIPRES services to be accessed through a variety of applications. At present, CIPRES services can be accessed through the well known community program Mesquite, and through a visual programming environment called Kepler that will allow users to construct workflows by arranging and linking icons on a workspace. The former capability will be available to users in by August, 2006, while the latter will be announced in beta release by July 1, 2006.
- For a flash movie of the CIPRES in Kepler functionality, click here.
- To see the presentation of CIPRES in Kepler functionality presented at the Evolution meetings, click here.
- To download the CIPRES in Kepler workflow (MAC ONLY!), click here.
The software development effort is a collaboration between developers at SDSC (Terri Liebowitz, Lucie Chan, Zhijie Guan and Alex Borchers) and domain scientists with expertise in developing software for the systematics community (Mark Holder, Paul Lewis, David Swofford, Wayne Maddison, David Maddison, Peter Midford, and Rutger Vos).
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