istar
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[istar] is a software-as-a-service platform for bioinformatics and chemoinformatics.


Architecture
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![istar architecture](https://github.com/HongjianLi/istar/raw/master/public/architecture.png)


Components
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### Web client

* [Twitter Bootstrap]
* [jQuery]
* [jQuery UI]
* [three.js]
* [zlib.js]
* [jquery-dateFormat]
* [jquery_lazyload]

### Web server

* [node.js]
* [mongodb]
* [express]
* [spdy]

### Database

* [MongoDB]

### Daemon

* [MongoDB C++ Driver]
* [POCO C++ Libraries]


Supported browsers
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* Google Chrome 30
* Mozilla Firefox 25
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
* Apple Safari 6.1
* Opera 17


Licenses
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* Source code is licensed under [Apache License 2.0].
* Documentation is licensed under [CC BY 3.0].


Author
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[Jacky Lee]


Logo
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![istar logo](https://github.com/HongjianLi/istar/raw/master/logo.png)



[istar]: http://istar.cse.cuhk.edu.hk
[Twitter Bootstrap]: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap
[jQuery]: https://github.com/jquery/jquery
[jQuery UI]: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui
[three.js]: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js
[zlib.js]: https://github.com/imaya/zlib.js
[jquery-dateFormat]: https://github.com/phstc/jquery-dateFormat
[jquery_lazyload]: https://github.com/tuupola/jquery_lazyload
[node.js]: https://github.com/joyent/node
[mongodb]: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native
[express]: https://github.com/visionmedia/express
[spdy]: https://github.com/indutny/node-spdy
[MongoDB]: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
[MongoDB C++ Driver]: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver
[POCO C++ Libraries]: https://github.com/pocoproject/poco
[Apache License 2.0]: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
[CC BY 3.0]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
[Jacky Lee]: http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~hjli