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namesonnodes

Names on Nodes provides an automated bridge between biology and biological nomenclature. Phylogenetic definitions are stored as MathML, to be applied to phylogenetic hypotheses. Rank-based definitions may also be applied, using distance metrics. The principles of this application were laid out by ... [More] Keesey (2007). The user interface of Names on Nodes is built in Flash Builder, using Adobe's Flex framework, Flare visualization tools, and Keesey's Three-Pound Monkey Brain ActionScript library. The server component is built with Java for a JBoss server, using BlazeDS and Hibernate. The database is PostgreSQL. This project is divided into three subprojects: namesonnodes-html: the static website accompanying the application, including index page and namespace definitions namesonnodes-lib: the ActionScript libraries used by the application; these could potentially be reused for other applications namesonnodes-app: the rich Internet application itself, including the server component, UI components, and connectivity logic The current status of this project is prealpha. It not complete, and will not compile to a useable web application right now, but much of the underlying code and test cases are ready. [Less]