THE USE OF WORLD-WIDE-WEB BROWSERS TO CREATE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (GUIS) FOR CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE - A GUI IMPLEMENTATION FOR X-PLOR

Much scientific software developed on main-frame computers lacks a use r interface. The authors have developed a method to create graphical u ser interfaces for this existing software, making use of World Wide We b browsers. The method has been implemented to facilitate input of dat a, submission of computation tasks and progress monitoring for X-PLOR jobs. The interface has been designed so that a user without prior kno wledge of UNIX can use X-PLOR, provided that access to a terminal with graphical ability is available.