Figure 1
From: BioQuali Cytoscape plugin: analysing the global consistency of regulatory networks
Plugin architecture. The BioQuali plugin and the computing cluster communicate over the Internet using HTTP protocol. The plugin first sends an HTTP request containing all the parameters required to launch BioQuali on the GenOuest Web server. Then it periodically sends a request to test the status of the job on the cluster. Once computing is finished, the content of the HTTP response changes and the plugin can retrieve the result and then perform the additional actions to display it correctly in Cytoscape. With this architecture, unauthenticated access to the computing cluster is allowed.