MGX Meeting Minutes - February 01 2005

Date: February 1st, 2005

Time: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Attendees:

Discussion:

Namita shared her latest drawings of a prototype conforming GUI for Protex, VGL and GeneX. These drawings reflect a consensus reached last week by the MGX student developers and Professor White.
The students shared their ideas concerning the confiorming GUI with Professor Bolker after he joined the meeting.

Professor Bolker suggested that the students write an algorithm calculating differences. This algorithm would function like the UNIX "diff" command. Such an alogorithm could be used to compute differences between two amino acid (polypeptide) chains (in Protex) or between two DNA sequences (in GeneX).
Professor Bolker also noted, however, that biologists may have a special way of calculating and showing the differences between DNA sequences. The MGX student developers (that is, David or Ruchi) will investigate this topic further.
Professor said that VGL Help was written by Professor White two years ago. He suggested that the students ask Professor White about writing similar Help documents for GeneX and Protex.

Ruchi described changes she has made to the GeneX code. David encouraged her to begin building the conforming GUI-GeneX (after Professor White approves it).
Pradeep said that he is working on the conforming GUI-VGL. So far he has focused on building the application History feature.
David shared some of the printed material he has found concerning the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) APIs for Drag and Drop and Java 2D Graphics. He intends to code a working example for image drag and drop. He suggested that Namita will be able to use the proposed working example as a model for drag and drop functionality in the conforming GUI-Protex.
David said that he will continue to write the MGX Meeting Minutes, and asked Ruchi to write (or at least provide input for) the weekly To-Do Lists.
The students agreed to meet at least once a week throughout the spring semester. The proposed set meeting time is Tuesday at 10:00 AM. (Professor White has said that he too is usually available at this hour on Tuesdays.)