Triana

Triana is a distributed problem solving environment. It combines workflow with a library of data analysis tools and distributed computing services.

Description

Triana is an open source, problem solving environment that combines an intuitive visual interface with powerful data analysis tools. Already used by scientists for a range of tasks, such as signal, text and image processing, Triana includes a large library of pre-written analysis tools and the ability for users to easily integrate their own tools.1

Triana is a graphical environment that allows you to create powerful computer programs and to use them, with a minimum of effort and no programming. Using Triana, you simply assemble your program from a set of building-blocks that you drag into a work-space window and connect up using your mouse. With a click of the mouse the program will perform whatever operations you want. You can tell Triana to execute your program just once or continuously, as long as data is available to it.

Since Triana is written in pure Java, it will run on almost any computer.

• Use Triana on a wide variety of data: numerical data, either taken from an experiment or generated by Triana; audio data; images; even text files.
• Triana comes with a wide variety of built-in tools. There is an extensive signal-analysis toolkit, an image-manipulation toolkit, a desk-top publishing toolkit, and many more.
• Triana will display your data, either in a text-editor window or in a versatile graph-display window.
• Triana is particularly good at automating repetitive tasks, such as continuously monitoring the spectrum of data that comes from an experiment that runs for days or even years.
• If the tools supplied with Triana do not do what you need, Triana contains a wizard that helps you to create new ones, with parameter windows.

Triana is being developed at Cardiff University in the UK.2

Function

• Analysis tools
  • Simple
  • Complex

Why use this tool?

• Use a graphical framework to solve scientific problems such as with Biodiversity World.

 Who will use this tool?

• Data users
  • Expert

 How will the tool be used?

• Desktop
• Platform independent Java application
• User input required

 Where in the data chain could this tool be used?

• User’s machine

 When could this tool be used?

• As a post process, after data is with the user

Availability

• Triana: http://www.trianacode.org/
• Download: https://forge.nesc.ac.uk/projects/triana/
• User guide: https://forge.nesc.ac.uk/docman/?group_id=33
• Version 3.2.3    April 2007
• Licence: Apache Software Licence
• Cost: Free to download and use
• Support: mailing lists, developer site

Comments

Triana can use the tools of Biodiversity World (if it exists).