Student Originated Software 1997-1998 Fall Quarter
		A Software Engineering Course at The Evergreen State College

Student Originated Software - Proposed Project Profile Project Name or current Identifier: Molecular Biology Contact Person: Betty Kutter Justin Laird Elizabeth Thomas Contact Person E-mail: lairdj@evergreen.edu Web Site: Customer organization (or user base): Evergreen T4 Lab (Betty Kutter et al) UW Biotechnology Center (Tim Hunkapiller, Frank Zucker) Zymogenetics (Dave Yee) Purpose of System: To build computer tools that helps molecular biologists map the human genome (among other things). Brief Description of System Functionality: Molecular biologists need better tools to put together the puzzle of the genome(s), to find genes that cause certain diseases, to find drugs that prevent or fight those diseases. Lots of possibilities here -- programs that search sequences, interfaces to those programs, browsers for results of searches, etc. Hardware and Software Platform: Mostly unix. some PC or Mac. Other Information (user interface, etc.):