VPIN: Virtual Plant Information Network

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Learn about SSWAP on the Clickable Protocol page.

Announcements

Discovery Server introduces on-demand validation and publication. 9/27/2007
The SSWAP Discovery Server now features the ability to validate your own resources using the Pellet OWL DL reasoner and publish their semantic descriptions to the world through the searchable SSWAP knowledge base.

Over 1500 NAR resources added to SSWAP. 6/14/2007
The SSWAP Discovery Server knowledge base now includes searchable semantic descriptions of the more than 1500 resources described in the 2007 database and web server issues of the journal Nucleic Acids Research.

VPIN approved for third year of funding from the National Science Foundation. 6/1/2007

Noble Foundation workshop with VPIN and LIS. 3/12/2007
Engineers and scientists from the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, the Legume Information System (LIS), and the Virtual Plant Information Network (VPIN) met in a two day workshop on using SSWAP for the integration of Noble and LIS gene expression data.

Updated Provider Development Kit (PDK) is now available. 5/7/2007
The new version includes the updated SSWAP protocol.
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Updated Client Development Kit (CDK) is now Available. 5/7/2007
The new version includes the updated SSWAP protocol.
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We use Apache Tomcat as the java-enabled webserver for the PDK and CDK.

We use Apache Ant to build and deploy the example provider and client web applications included in the CDK and PDK.

We use Java, version 1.6, for the PDK and CDK. Go to Sun Developer Network if Java 1.5 or greater is not available on your system.

Clickable SSWAP protocol documentation is now available. 1/11/2007
View a graphical representation of the protocol and click the nodes to get more info.
Clickable SSWAP Protocol