Data presentation and the WWW

openSputnik needs to present and display some rather complicated data to a less computationally aware audience. While I feel that XML is the best way to display everything - I believe that most biologists will disagree. I have chosen to use Zope as a web-application server system and have implemented a Zope product, openZputnik (does anyone have a better name?), that allows for the administration of the core openSputnik server as well as the display of all contained data. Since this is Zope it is relatively trivial to setup and maintain. Screenshots will appear in due course.

Any students who would like to create some funky GUI and applets for the presentation of better graphics within openZputnik should send me a mail.

Much of openSputnik is hosted at SourceForge

Stephen Rudd works at the Centre for Biotechnology in Turku, Finland