Web-Tool Design for the Sciences
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC 137B
Start Date
21-5-2015
End Date
21-5-2015
Keywords
Data Analysis, Online, Visualization
Abstract
When performing research in any given field, the use of custom-built software may be employed in order to facilitate a more expedient research process. Users of these programs are most often not computer specialists themselves and experience difficulty utilizing the software. We are developing a front-end platform that is capable of interfacing with back-end programs hosted on a server. The infrastructure integrates web development technologies (HTML, CSS, PHP), shell scripts utilizing gnuplot, and a locally hosted server. The HTML web-page invokes the scientific software, which has been reviewed and debugged for efficiency and run-time errors, before utilizing a shell script to generate statistical plots of functions. This script parses the hosted scientific software’s output and formats the data for gnuplot to extrapolate. The statistical and graphical plots are posted to the website’s front-end graphical user interface for the end user to analyze. This platform is currently being tested by implementing software that is in development by Elizabeth Brooks for biology (co)variance research at Central Washington University.
Recommended Citation
Edwards, Branndon; Jones, James; Michel, Alec; and Brooks, Elizabeth, "Web-Tool Design for the Sciences" (2015). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 34.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2015/oralpresentations/34
Department/Program
Computer Science
Additional Mentoring Department
Computer Science
Additional Mentoring Department
Biology
Web-Tool Design for the Sciences
SURC 137B
When performing research in any given field, the use of custom-built software may be employed in order to facilitate a more expedient research process. Users of these programs are most often not computer specialists themselves and experience difficulty utilizing the software. We are developing a front-end platform that is capable of interfacing with back-end programs hosted on a server. The infrastructure integrates web development technologies (HTML, CSS, PHP), shell scripts utilizing gnuplot, and a locally hosted server. The HTML web-page invokes the scientific software, which has been reviewed and debugged for efficiency and run-time errors, before utilizing a shell script to generate statistical plots of functions. This script parses the hosted scientific software’s output and formats the data for gnuplot to extrapolate. The statistical and graphical plots are posted to the website’s front-end graphical user interface for the end user to analyze. This platform is currently being tested by implementing software that is in development by Elizabeth Brooks for biology (co)variance research at Central Washington University.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Filip Jagodzinski, Alison Scoville