Hi everybody, as we successfully participated in a big biological student competition called iGEM at the famous MIT last week by creating a software project based on Wave, we want to take the opportunity to both thank the Wave-developers for creating Wave and making our project possible (THANK YOU!) and to give you a short presentation of what we did, as some of the things we created might be interesting for other projects as well.
Our Idea basically was to create robots adding molecular biological functionality to Wave, and therefore allow biologist to plan their experiments collaboratively online. As there are LOTS of such functions biologist want to have, we planed our project to be easy to extend. Therefore we created a main robot ([email protected]) and an extended abstract robot class other developers can use to create their own (synbiowave)robots, which extend the functionality offered in a wave when added to it. To allow users to call all that functions easily easily, we additionally created a toolbar-gadget, to which robots register their functions when added to the Wave (that is some of the stuff down by the main robot and the extended abstract class). If you want to test how it works add [email protected] to the wave (after you added the main robot). The Toolbar should display a new Documentation- dropdown after that. Let me know if some of you like to use that dynamical toolbar in your own projects (i think i read some post requesting such a thing here before), we can separately release it after some cleanup (of cause you are free to extract it from our svn at sourceforge yourself as all is open source...). Additionally we created a file upload to and download from robots (what took us quite a while, think that could be interesting for others as well) and of course lots of biological stuff. At the moment all robots are written in java, we a planning to create a extended python abstract robot class later... If you like to read more (we did a lot of documentation for the competition) please visit SynBioWave.org or http://sourceforge.net/projects/synbiowave Thanks for reading all thought this. We are always looking for feedback, feel free to answer :-) David, Jörg and Paul University of Freiburg, Germany --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
