BioLegato: a programmable, object-oriented graphic user interface

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dc.contributor.authorAlvare, Graham
dc.contributor.authorRoche-Lima, Abiel
dc.contributor.authorFristensky, Brian
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-27T22:41:08Z
dc.date.available2023-11-27T22:41:08Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-21
dc.date.updated2023-11-03T09:15:00Z
dc.description.abstractBackground Biologists are faced with an ever-changing array of complex software tools with steep learning curves, often run on High Performance Computing platforms. To resolve the tradeoff between analytical sophistication and usability, we have designed BioLegato, a programmable graphical user interface (GUI) for running external programs. Results BioLegato can run any program or pipeline that can be launched as a command. BioLegato reads specifications for each tool from files written in PCD, a simple language for specifying GUI components that set parameters for calling external programs. Thus, adding new tools to BioLegato can be done without changing the BioLegato Java code itself. The process is as simple as copying an existing PCD file and modifying it for the new program, which is more like filling in a form than writing code. PCD thus facilitates rapid development of new applications using existing programs as building blocks, and getting them to work together seamlessly. Conclusion BioLegato applies Object-Oriented concepts to the user experience by organizing applications based on discrete data types and the methods relevant to that data. PCD makes it easier for BioLegato applications to evolve with the succession of analytical tools for bioinformatics. BioLegato is applicable not only in biology, but in almost any field in which disparate software tools need to work as an integrated system.
dc.identifier.citationBMC Bioinformatics. 2023 Aug 21;24(1):316
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12859-023-05436-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/37824
dc.language.isoeng
dc.language.rfc3066en
dc.publisherBMC
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.rights.holderBioMed Central Ltd., part of Springer Nature
dc.subjectGraphic user interface
dc.subjectUser experience
dc.subjectData pipelining
dc.subjectSequencing
dc.subjectGenomics
dc.subjectTranscriptomics
dc.titleBioLegato: a programmable, object-oriented graphic user interface
dc.typeJournal Article
local.author.affiliationFaculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences::Department of Plant Science
oaire.citation.issue316
oaire.citation.titleBMC Bioinformatics
oaire.citation.volume24
project.funder.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100008762
project.funder.nameGenome Canada
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