Talisman is a rapid application development tool, intended to allow application developers to easily build web based tools for end users falling into the 'narrow user' and 'casual bioinformatician' categories, although there is nothing in Talisman that is particularly bioinformatics specific.

More information on Talisman can be found on the Source Forge website, where all development is hosted. The URL for this is :

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/talisman

You can see a runing installation at :

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/collab/mygrid/service1/talisman (please do not distribute this URL outside of myGrid) - this installation includes the standard Talisman documentation, tutorials, javadoc etc.

I suggest that anyone wishing to play with it gets an anonymous cvs dump and emails me when it doesn't work (um, I mean, when you have questions...)

• TalismanInteractions - a page describing possible interactions between Talisman and other myGrid components.
• TalismanInstallations - list of myGrid partner maintained Talisman installations.

There is an illustrated story board describing possible interactions with myGrid components in a typical lab scenario, this is available online at : http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~tmo/mygrid_interactions

-- TomOinn - 23 Jan 2003