His first project, on an interface for bioinformatics services on web called “SeWeR”, was a success as judged by the popularity which bolstered his confidence to more ambitious work in computational geometry. This led to the creation of “Pastel”, a library in Perl to generate Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). He wrote Pastel to act as a base to write “BioSVG”, a set of Perl modules to generate SVG for biological data. As a prototype he wrote “Savvy” to draw plasmid map in SVG using BioSVG and currently he is working to finish Pastel and BioSVG.

• Session: DHTML and Scalable Vector Graphics in Bioinformatics