GPLBrowse: Architectural Overview

GPLBrowse is a complex web application that provides an online environment for exploration of bioinformatics data. This data, which was gathered from the Gene Expression Omnibus or NCBI GEO (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/geo/) project, is presented in GPLBrowse as a series of scatter plot charts. On the server side, GPLBrowse is hosted by a Tomcat web server running a Java servlet. On the client side, the web browser executes JavaScript code that was built using Ajax technologies with the aid of the Yahoo User Interface library (YUI). This technical report describes the server side and client side designs of GPLBrowse, and the interactions between the two.