The Scripps Research Institute’s Collaborative Molecular Environment

Posted By: Charles | Jul 10th, 2006 @ 8:57 AM | 36,045 Views | 12 Comments

Collaboration is important to most organizations but it is particularly important to the scientists around the world who are researching the complex structures of the SARS virus and cancer cells.  When doing their work and planning future work it is vital that they are able to see, benefit from, and not duplicate the work of others. To tackle these collaboration needs TSRI has partnered with Interknowlogy to build a revolutionary data sharing and visualization application they call the Collaboration Molecular Environment (C-ME).  C-ME uses WPF, WinForms, and Office 2007 to front end Sharepoint 2007 .  In this video Dr. Peter Kuhn from TSRI and Tim Huckaby from Interknowlogy show us a demo of C-ME, talk about its origins and the impact it is having on how they operate.

Learn more about the technologies behind this application here.
Media Downloads:
Rating:
0
0
#Jul 10th, 2006 @ 11:48 AM
mVPstar
mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.
Guess my reply got deleted..the old C9 threaded reply delete bug..
[Charles says: Actually, I accidentally deleted it...Oops]

Anyways, this is very impressive.  My dad's a medicinal chemist and would find an app like this very useful.

This they really say it took 2 weeks to build that control and only 6-8 weeks to build the entire system?

Wow.
#Jul 10th, 2006 @ 12:09 PM
jsampsonPC
jsampsonPC
SampsonBlog.com SampsonVideos.com
Poobah,

How exactly do you guy hear about these things taking place all over the world? Do the developers of these applications call up c9 and ask you to come out and interview them?

By the way, this interview is sweet. The second passion, next to programming, is cell biology...and this is absolutely awesome!

Jonathan
#Jul 10th, 2006 @ 12:10 PM
Poobah
Poobah
That's right 6-8 weeks of dev.  As far as the 3D piece, the developer had some 3D experience but no WPF experience.
#Jul 10th, 2006 @ 3:18 PM
Chadk
Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?
So, the control is WPF. The rest is Winforms?

What is the reason for not making it 100% WPF?
#Jul 10th, 2006 @ 3:24 PM
Poobah
Poobah
Jonathan, I'm part of the platform evangelism team and we learn about these interesting uses of technology through a number of different channels, mingling with folks at our developer conferences, by working directly with partners and customers in our early adoption programs, through our developer evangelists that are working with the community in their regions, etc.
#Jul 11th, 2006 @ 6:56 AM
AdityaG
AdityaG
OMG VISTA FTW LOLZ!!1one
I loved the part where they kept thinking the video could be edited ... Little did they know about channel 9! Tongue Out

Cool stuff though.
#Jul 11th, 2006 @ 5:05 PM
Poobah
Poobah
Chadk, I need to contact them to confirm but I'm guessing that it had a lot to do with maturity of tools.  There are definitely advantages to using WPF for the form based portions of the UI (like easy adaptability to screen resolution and shape) but at the moment the Winforms development tools are more mature and better known.
#Jul 12th, 2006 @ 5:36 AM
Chadk
Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?
Poobah wrote:
Chadk, I need to contact them to confirm but I'm guessing that it had a lot to do with maturity of tools.  There are definitely advantages to using WPF for the form based portions of the UI (like easy adaptability to screen resolution and shape) but at the moment the Winforms development tools are more mature and better known.

I think you are right. But i see no reason for not doing it in as much WPF as possible. If you need a control, fine. You can build it yourself. Or as you already know, you can use crossbow, and just use the normal Windows Forms control!
#Jul 12th, 2006 @ 9:38 AM
kkennedy
kkennedy
I am a developer on this project. The image above is incorrect. The app is in fact 100% WPF for the presentation layer.
Microsoft Communities