Introducing the eyeLIMS project
By Pau Garcia-Milà | May, 5 2008 | Development, Professional Apps
Companies creating eyeOS Apps: eyeWIRIS
By Pau Garcia-Milà | April, 1 2008 | Professional Apps, Reviews
Note: This is the first post of a new serie of eyeOS Professional Apps created or ported by companies around the world. You can read all the posts with the Pro Apps Category page from this blog.
eyeWIRIS is a CAS (Computer Algebra System) that also includes a DGS (Dynamic Geometry System) inside. You can access a powerful calculation toolbar that includes integrals and limits calculation, function graphing in 2D or 3D and symbolic matrices manipulation. It covers all mathematical topics from primary school to University level (Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Algebra).
It’s also a great example of a Professional Application from Maths for More made in Java and ported (the good way) to eyeOS, with a full integration between the app and the eyeOS Toolkit and eyeOS filesystem: You can save and use your calculations from eyeWIRIS and eyeOS.
It’s free for personal use, and you can create 2D and 3D graphics using the company’s servers for free too.
You can use this app from your account from the eyeOS Public Server, or downloading it to your eyeOS server from its eyeOS-Apps page.
To see eyeOS widely used by scientists all around the world, a group of eyeOS users and developers, leaded by Alexandre Mejat, has initiated the eyeLIMS project. eyeLIMS is a community-driven project which aims at providing a Free Open Source Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) powered by eyeOS.
The eyeLIMS community will develop new eyeOS applications or port to eyeOS existing free open source applications specifically dedicated to molecular and cellular biology.
The eyeLIMS Software Suite will include a set of eyeOS applications dedicated to common activities in research laboratories such as managing samples or reagents (eyeStorage), managing bibliographic references (eyeBiblio) or manipulating data (eyeJmol).
The whole project is Free and Open Source and will be released under GNU Affero GPL v.3 license (the same as eyeOS). If you would like to collaborate with the project or you are interested in following its development, you can check the project’s homepage and its discussion board.