A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT FOR PHYSICAL MAP CONSTRUCTION

Motivation: With the main focus of the Human Genome Project shifting t o sequencing, bioinformatics support for constructing large-scale geno mic maps of other organisms is still required. We attempt to provide f or this with our work, aimed at the delivery of robust and user-friend ly contig-building software an the WWW. Results: We present a prototyp e distributed analytical environment for molecular biologists working in the area of genomic mapping. It consists of the WWW server for cons tructing contigs from users' data with a hypertext output connected to Java-based map visualization software.