The bioLegato concept

lightweight - most functionality is through external program calls. bioLegato is "anti-bloatware"

versatile - almost anything could be run from bioLegato, whether locally-installed programs, or web services

Figure 1 - bioLegato main window and a popup menu for launching the FEATURES program. In this prototype, the canvas pane is empty.

Object-Oriented Design

blMenuSpecs - Ontology of methods for a given data type

blMenuBar - Top-level of method ontology ie. a hierarchical menu

blMenu - Lets user set parameters for a method and to launch the method, using the currently-selected data as input.

blObject - Represents the collection of data objects currently read in.

blCanvas - Displays the current state of the blObject, and allows user select subsets of the data and to manipulate the data.

In principle, bioLegato should be able to work with almost any kind of data, and use almost any kind of method, anywhere.

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