The Roadrunner Project was begun in the Fall of 2005 with the goal of developing an open source system to store and provide online access to the chemical properties and bioactivities of small molecules. The envisioned scope of Roadrunner has since expanded significantly to include plate management functionality and the automation of certain aspects of post-HTS analysis. Roadrunner is in the middle stages of development. It continues to evolve and new fuctionality is continually being added. The production application is accessible here.

Roadrunner employs a more-or-less classical three-tier architecture. The Roadrunner database is implemented in PostgreSQL, a robust and sophisticated open-source object-relational database management system. The Roadrunner web application is implemented in PHP using my own perversion of the Model-View-Controller paradigm (which is vastly simpler than the various MVC frameworks around). The middle tier components, include the data access layer, are also implemented in PHP.

Roadrunner code and content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 2.5 License. Essentially, this means you may use, tweak, and build upon Roadrunner non-commercially as long as you acknowledge the author for the original creation.

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