Nexplorer is provided by the
Computational and Analytical Molecular Evolution Laboratory
(Arlin Stoltzfus group) at CARB, and
the
Evolutionary Bioinformatics Lab
(Wei Gang Qiu group) at Hunter College.
Many individuals contributed to the design, implementation and user-testing of Nexplorer.
The original concept-- to provide a graphical interface to the command-driven
nexplot program-- was prototyped in 2004 by Brendan O'Brien, and this was developed
by Peter Yang into version 1 of Nexplorer, providing an interface to nexplot and a tool
for generating a NEXUS file from an alignment and a tree in a standard format. In 2005,
version 2 of Nexplorer was developed with a 3-tiered architecture, an extended array of
functions, and thousands of pre-computed data sets.
- Michael Chen
- designer and programmer, version 2 of Nexplorer
- Vivek Gopalan
- designer, programmer and project manager, version 2 of Nexplorer
- Peter Yang
- designer and programmer, version 1 of Nexplorer; programmer, NEXPL
- Brendan O'Brien
- designer and programmer, prototype version of Nexplorer
- WeiGang Qiu
- designer and programmer, original nexplot program and original SPAN database
- Arlin Stoltzfus
- designer, project manager, version 1 of Nexplorer; designer and programmer, NEXPL
- Tom Hladish
- programmer, NEXPL
- Chengzhi Liang
- designer and programmer, NEXPL; designer and programmer, SPAN2
- Our user testers
- James R. Brown, Danny De Kee, Tom Hladish, Rob Jorisson, Eugene Melamud, Harold Smith, and others
This work was supported by NIH grant R01-LM007218 to Arlin Stoltzfus and NIH grant GM060654 to WeiGang Qiu.
