[BiO BB] [Portal Web Design for Bioinformatics] How to start and cross platform issues

[Robert lzw]

Thanks a lot, guys, for the detailed messages, which is very helpful. Now I
know where to start at least.

My understanding is that platform decides which tools / frameworks would be
available to you. So that is a big decision for a starter...

Robert

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Chris Upton <cupton at uvic.ca> wrote:

> And remember, large numbers in the life sciences and in bioinformatics use
> Mac OS X.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 9/25/09 11:34 AM, "J.W. Bizzaro" <jeff at bioinformatics.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> The separation of server-side software (e.g., PHP, ASP, etc.) from
> client-side software (browser and plugin) is an aspect of the Web that has
> made it so flexible and successful.  As long as the software that you choose
> to run on the client-side (e.g., JavaScript and plugins such as Flash, etc.)
> is widely supported on multiple platforms, it doesn't matter what you choose
> to run on the server-side.
>
> So, you can set up a server that runs on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Commodore
> 64, or whatever, and people can access your site on any platform that
> supports the client software that you use, if you even use anything beyond
> HTML.
>
> Technically speaking, many bioinformatics portals work on the
> "model-view-controller" (MVC) paradigm, intentionally or not.  Here's some
> more information on the topic:
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller
>
> Applied to the Web, the model resides on the server (e.g., in MySQL), while
> the view and controller reside on the client (e.g., browser and plugin).
>
> If you choose to use a plugin and not just JavaScript, be sure that it is
> supported on multiple platforms.  Microsoft solutions are always best
> supported on Windows computers, including plugins.  Mac OS is a second-class
> citizen to Microsoft, and Linux barely exists.  For Linux, it is often left
> up to a third-party developer (e.g., Novell) to develop clones of Microsoft
> applications (e.g., Novell Mono attempts to bring .NET to Linux).  ActiveX
> and Silverlight are two examples of where Microsoft doesn't make their own
> plugins for Linux (AFAIK).
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
> Robert lzw wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am a newbie to web design for bioinformatics and going to design a
> portal
> > web page similar to the following link:
> > http://www.eh3.uc.edu:8080/GenomicsPortals/
> >
> > It looks that the above portal was designed on Unix/Linux using
> JavaScript
> > and Microsoft FrontPage 5.0 processing datasets in MySQL database. As I
> only
> > have MS Visual Studio 2008 Prof software, I plan to go with ASP.NET and
> > ADO.NET to do it for processing datasets in SQL databases.
> >
> > Does anybody know if this will work? Can the portal web pages designed
> based
> > on Windows .NET framework be browsed without any problem on Linux/Unix.
> > i.e., other platforms than the Windows? Regardless, any suggestions on
> how
> > to start designing such a portal web page (books, online resources,
> > framework and tools) would be highly appreciated. I need a general,
> correct
> > direction to follow. Thank you very much in advance.
> >
>
> --
> J.W. Bizzaro
> Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org)
> E-mail: jeff at bioinformatics.org
> Phone:  +1 978 621 8258
> --
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> BBB mailing list
> BBB at bioinformatics.org
> http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
>
> _______________________________________________
> BBB mailing list
> BBB at bioinformatics.org
> http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
>