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Are you going to this year's Flash Forward conference? I'll be talking about visualizing science with flash, at 4pm on Thursday (room 223). My Q&A session is 9am, the next day.

There's so much to talk about. It was very hard to keep it to a one hour presentation. I'll focus on projects that use XML in some form, with either a custom data structure or an established XML application. If there's time, I'll also touch on webMathematica and mathML. It'll be fun, really! :-)

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Recently, I became aware of an XML application for modeling biochemistry, and cell biology: CellML.

"CellML is intended to support the definition of models of cellular and subcellular processes."

CellML.org - What Is CellML?

Could this, combined with Flash, lead to real-time-online-virtual reality for cell and molecular biology?

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Peter Liscovius emailed me with an interesting idea: use Ming to generate a swf with mathML.

"Ming is opensource (LGPL) and is written in C, but can be used by many programming languages (c itself, c++, php, perl, pyton, ruby, java)

I'm using it with Perl. So using one of the XML-modules of Perl and Ming, it should be fun to write a nice math2SWF-converter."

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New work-in-progress on GalaxyGoo: Interactive Dichotomous Key built with flash and XML

Take a peak, and tell us what you think.

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GalaxyGoo's Periodic Table with Flash and webMathematica now pulls data directly from webMathematica!

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Edwin's CML reader is now on GalaxyGoo!

Be carefull, this version is a CPU hog.
CML Reader with Flash

"I've seen that in java," you may say. For client-side interaction, I think Flash is the better solution. For developers, it offers great opportunites for collaboration, and is easily updated.

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I've uploaded a prototype Flash MathML reader, to the site. Take a look, and let me know what you think.

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The more I play with XML, the more I like it. This prototype only took a few hours to put together (including getting the thumbnails all the same size).

It's very rough, and I'm looking forward to working on it more.

Visual Guide to NASA Images

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