Stylus 1.2.0, Biologic Institute Inscribe 1.0, Biologic Institute

http://biologicstylus.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/biologicstylus

ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

• Arial Unicode Font (http://www.ascendercorp.com/msfonts/arial_unicode.html)
• Adobe Flash 8.x or greater (http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/)
• Batik 1.6 or greater (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/)

WHAT IS INSCRIBE? Inscribe is a suite of files designed to make creating input for Stylus easier. It also includes the publicly available Archetypes Stylus requiresf and a few sample Genes.

INSTALLING INSCRIBE Researchers use Inscribe by means of three web sites: One for Archetypes, another for Genes, and the last for accessing the Inscribe tools. Researchers using Apache (1.x or 2.x) can create the web sites by adding the included apache.conf file, after modifying the contained paths, to their httpd.conf. Hosting Inscribe in other web servers will follow similar steps.

INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS Both the Inscribe tool and the Inscribe web site depend on the Arial Unicode font. The Archetype tool requires a suite of image files (.PNG) created from the font; all other pages rely on the font for proper display (meaning, the font must be installed on the browsing computer). Additionally, building new Archetypes requires Flash 8.x or above (see http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/).

While the data files and scripts for building the images are present, they also rely on the SVG rasterizer, Batik, available from the Apache Project. To build the images, follow these steps:

• Download Batik 1.6 or greater
• Modify ./html/scripts/makeImages.pl to reference the locally installed Batik package
• From the ./html/scripts directory, run the buildImages.sh script

Generating the entire suite of images takes about 1-2 hours depending on the hardware.

BUILDING ARCHETYPES AND GENES Researchers may build their own archetypes and genes by browsing to the Inscribe web site. Selecting the "Archetype" option will bring up the Inscribe Flash tool. The tool has several steps by which a researcher creates the description of an archetype. Selecting the "Genes" option will bring up a page through which a research may create new genes by specifying various properties. See the Inscribe User Guide for more details.

Please send all comments and questions to [email protected].