Title

Authors

Affiliation

Institute of Farm Animal Genetics (FLI), Holtystrasse 10, 31535 Neustadt/Mariensee, Germany

Email

cong.chi@fli.bund.de; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Views & Challenges

Date

Received September 27, 2011; Accepted October 02, 2011; Published October 14, 2011

Complex open source information systems are usually implemented as component-based software to inherit the available functionality of existing software packages developed by third parties. Consequently, the deployment of these systems not only requires the installation of operating system, application framework and the configuration of services but also needs to resolve the dependencies among components. The problem becomes more challenging when the application must be installed and used on different platforms such as Linux and Windows. To address this, an efficient approach using the virtualization technology is suggested and discussed in this paper. The approach has been applied in our project to deploy a web-based integrated information system in molecular genetics labs. It is a low-cost solution to benefit both software developers and end-users.

Citation

Truong & Groeneveld, Bioinformation 7(4): 152-153 (2011)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.