TRAMP is a software package for generating transposon maps that are used for DNA sequencing. The package provides a variety of automated tools that can always be overridden by the user. The central part of the package is its selection algorithm that finds the most robust map with the smallest number of inserts. TRAMP has been in daily use by the sequencing team at LBL since it was introduced in the Spring of 1994. It is applicable to any sequencing project utilizing the directed strategy.

A collaboration designed to demonstrate the possibilities of access to supercomputers via the high-speed wide-area networks in order to carry out sophisticated, interactive visualization on local workstations is described. The test case was visualization of 3D magnetic resonance imaging data, with a Vray performing surface reconstruction to generate a set of triangles. The resulting geometric data was sent to a local workstation to be rendered, with minor enhancements to current network protocols enabling effective utilization of the 45 Mb bandwidth of a T3-based network.>