The Loci/Piper Project

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

FOCUS & GOALS

DESIGN

BACKGROUND

CONTRIBUTORS

MAILING LISTS

DOCUMENTATION

SCREENSHOTS

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DOCUMENTATION

Please note the document dates. Newer ones are more accurate than older ones.

FOR EVERYONE

Distributing Bioinformatics Applications with Piper (Slides)
By J.W. Bizzaro, August 2000
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Distributing Scientific Applications with GNU Piper
By J.W. Bizzaro, October 1999

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Command Compilation in Piper: A Discourse
By J.W. Bizzaro, February 2001
Contributions by Gary Van Domselaar and Brad Chapman

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Applications Similar to Piper

Believe it or not, some of the ideas are not new to the world, although we came up with most of them on our own. We discovered three commercially-developed applications that look and work very much like Piper: However, Piper has a number of features not seen in these applications, such as contemporary Peer-To-Peer (P2P) capabilities, workspace-residing windowlets, etc. Plus, Piper is licensed under a GNU license (LGPL).

FOR DEVELOPERS

Overflow (Piper PL) Compared to Matlab/C
By Jean-Marc Valin, February 2001

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How to Write a User Interface (UI) for Piper's UI Layer (UIL)
By Brad Chapman, July 2000

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The Definition Layer (DL) of Piper
By Brad Chapman, July 2000

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Getting Programs and Libraries to Work with Piper
By Brad Chapman, July 2000

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