Acknowledgements

Webace was originally developed at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) -1997 by JD Barnett. Developement has been continued, mainly at the Sanger Centre since April 1997 by Tim Hubbard. A key part of this development has been the creation of the gifaceserver by Richard Durbin and Jean Thierry-Mieg, which has been a major factor in the improved interactive response in generation of graphical displays and about which the new code is based. Richard has continued to extend the functionality of the gif commands of the server, for example to be able to control the columns displayed in the FMAP. At the Ace97 workshop, Sean Walsh extended the new display CGI code to use a Java applet instead of Javascript and later added a number of enhancements to the graphics display. Staffan Bergh contributed a number of bug fixes and is currently working on a number of new OO perl modules to interact with acedb via the aceclient module. Ewan Birney modified the old Aceclient.pm module so that it can be installed into perl without recompiling, as for other CPAN modules. Aceclient.pm is distributed with a number of higher level modules to access results of acedb queries developed by Andy Williams. My thanks to all those in the Sanger Centre, particularly the in the Informatics and Human Genetics groups who have helped debug the system and suggest enhancements.

Tim Hubbard, Sanger Centre, 15/3/98.