Google just announced that it is retiring Chrome Frame, its open source plug-in for bringing Google Chrome's JavaScript and rendering engine to legacy versions of Internet Explorer.
The open source plug-in architecture should encourage researchers from other areas (e.g., data mining or machine learning) to integrate their methods in a safe testing environment with relevant datasets.
According to a source plugged into the machinations of Redmond's top brass, Elop's move to become the CEO of a major technology company (i.e. possible competitor) was notable because there was no rush to physically push him off Microsoft's campus.
First, the power source plugs into the power brick.
Cars are flipped over, things blow up, a confusing and potentially impossible power source plugs into Iron Man's chest, and his yellow and red suit blasts Tony up close to outer space, as well as helping him to out-duel two fighter planes in the Middle Eastern desert.
Cytoscape (Shannon et al., 2003), in particular, has been widely adopted by the biological community for its ease of use and extensibility through open source plug-in development.
Graphiti is an open-source plug-in for the Eclipse environment that provides a generic graph editor.
Recently, we introduced PLUMED, an open-source plug-in that provides some of the most popular molecular dynamics (MD) codes with implementations of a variety of different enhanced sampling algorithms and collective variables (CVs).
Well here's another pro-privacy tool in the making: Anonabox claims to be an open-source, plug-and-play hardware router designed to encrypt and route all the users' web traffic via the Tor anonymizing network, so their browsing and location remains private.
The algorithms are found either as built-in network reconstruction tools within commercial software packages or as open-source plug-in modules for Cytoscape.
Cerebral ('Cell Region-Based Rendering and Layout') is an open-source plug-in for Cytoscape that uses subcellular localization information to layout networks in a more biologically intuitive and layered fashion (2).
