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Design and implementation of a client‐server architecture for taxonomy manager
Author(s) -
Reich Jacqueline R.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(199902)29:2<143::aid-spe226>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - architecture , computer science , client–server model , taxonomy (biology) , world wide web , software engineering , operating system , server , biology , art , ecology , visual arts
Taxonomy Manager (TM) is a computer‐based, full‐text method dedicated to represent biological knowledge allowing scientists to continuously revise and reorganize the conceptual framework of data and their interpretation. The system architecture distinguishes clients and a task oriented server. TM provides a distinct, precise, yet user‐friendly, formalism for knowledge specification by biologic experts and for factual knowledge input by general scientists on interactive interfaces. An incremental compiler translates and transforms new information specified within full‐text editors into an internal format and back again. A retrieval dialog allows access to the results of text analyses including information units and associated rules, and a browser offers free navigation through the network of data. External users can access the information contained within TM by a communication protocol. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.