[Jython-dev] New Jython project.

[<ti...@ca...>]

Hi all,

you can add a bioinformatics project to the list of Jython applications...
An alpha version of my FamilyRelations viewer for comparative sequence
analysis of genomic data is soon to be released under GPL.

The project site (what there is of it) is at

	http://family.caltech.edu/

and the project code is under CVS at 'http://familyjewels.sourceforge.net',
along with the backend analysis code.

FamilyRelations has been in use here at Caltech for several months, and
it's finally approaching a really usable state.  Of course, you have no need
to use it unless you're looking at kb of homologous genomic regions -- it's
a rather specialized application ;).

The main program is 'ds-chooser.py' if you want to try running it.

The codebase is approximately 9000 lines, ~4000 lines of Jython code and
the rest in comments & whitespace.  I hope to release an alpha version within
a month or so.

Jython has helped me enormously by providing a Java-based framework for
rapid application development.  FamilyRelations is being developed and
run on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X -- it uses Swing, so it won't run on
Mac OS 9 or below -- and I believe that the ease of installation will play
a huge role in its adoption.

N.B.  It runs under Jython 2.0.  I haven't tested it under 2.1 yet.

cheers,
--titus