Figure 1
From: BioBuilder as a database development and functional annotation platform for proteins
A schematic showing BioBuilder in the context of Zope environment. When a client or any other remote database calls Zope, the ZServer processes the request and sends it to ZPublisher. The ZPublisher acts as an object request broker, finding the requested object, and delivering the objects back to the ZServer in their requested form. BioBuilder was built on top of the Zope core application code. Part of the application code is stored in the file system and other parts are in object database (ZODB).