A Collaboration Transparence Approach to Share Heterogeneous Single-User Molecule Editors
In the biology and chemistry field various types of molecule editors exist It is convenient for biologist and chemist to use those editors to create and modify representations of molecular structures. Most editors however are designed for use by a single user only. Thus biologists and chemists lack tools for collaborative work. In this paper we present a transparent approach for collaboration. This approach is used to share off-the-shelf single-user applications without modifying the source code and thus to provide those editors with groupware capabilities. On this basis we go a step further by also designing and implementing a mechanism to make biologists and chemists who use heterogeneous singleuser molecule editors collaborate with each other with their favorite tools instead of using just one version. Our research can reuse an amount of excellent existing molecule editors. This makes it easy to collaborate for biologists and chemists with a familiar interface. Additionally it saves money and time because it is not necessary to develop new tools from scratch.
molecule editor collaboration transparence heterogeneous computational biology
Chen Zhao Ruisheng Zhang Ramin Yahyapour Rongjing Hu
School of Mathematics and Statistics Lanzhou University Lanzhou, China School of Information Science & Engineering Lanzhou University Lanzhou, China IT & Media Center Technical University Dortmund Dortmund, Germany
国际会议
成都
英文
131-137
2011-01-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）