Augmenting Research, Education, and Outreach with Client-Side Web Programming

Luciano A Abriata; João P G L M Rodrigues; Marcel Salathé; Luc Patiny

doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.11.009

Augmenting Research, Education, and Outreach with Client-Side Web Programming

Trends Biotechnol. 2018 May;36(5):473-476. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.11.009. Epub 2017 Dec 15.

Authors

Luciano A Abriata¹, João P G L M Rodrigues², Marcel Salathé³, Luc Patiny⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory for Biomolecular Modeling, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: luciano.abriata@epfl.ch.
² Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
³ School of Life Sciences, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁴ Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland.

Abstract

The evolution of computing and web technologies over the past decade has enabled the development of fully fledged scientific applications that run directly on web browsers. Powered by JavaScript, the lingua franca of web programming, these 'web apps' are starting to revolutionize and democratize scientific research, education, and outreach.

Keywords: JavaScript; bioinformatics; chemoinformatics; open science; visualization.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / methods*
Health Education / methods*
Humans
Internet*
Software

Grants and funding

R35 GM122543/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States