Governors State University1, Computer Science, Univeristy Parkway, IL 60466 Argonne National Laboratory2, Biosciences Division, Argonne, IL 60439
The Midwest Center for Structural Genomics (MCSG) at Argonne National Laboratory develops and optimizes integrated methods for determination of protein structures through x-ray crystallography. The MCSG program requires entering data and procedures to common database using the Laboratory Information System (LIM) system.
The goal of the project is to design and develop a smart client application to view existing MCSG protocols for high-throughput protein purification on the Pocket-PC screen and to develop a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) application with MCSG cloning and purification databases. The PDA will exhibit the same functionality as a web page, but provide be much more convenient and accurate on a secure network.
The initial PDA application was developed using Microsoft .NET 2003, and the new system will be re-developed using Microsoft .NET 2005 technology. User interfaces are developed with ASP.NET Mobile forms, HTML, WML and JavaScript. Scientific logics are implemented with C++/C# and Oracle PL/SQL. Like the Web page, the PDA application uses Oracle 10g databases for data storage. Current web applications are designed, implemented and upgraded for common web tasks and data storage in order to fit the scale of a PDA window using the most up-to-date technologies. Users can scan the data using a PDA scanner and save the data directly into the database.
The major areas of work during this project are to design and implement rich mobile web content and applications across a variety of hardware platforms and hand held devices. Using the PDA interface scientists can scan the data using a PDA scanner and save the data directly into the database. The PDA interface also prevents scientists from entering invalid and out of range data. The PDA mobile applications are accessible to any authorized user at anytime and anyplace on any hand-held device.
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