Virtual instrumentation to study galaxies
  The MIGALE project (http://www.sai.msu.su/migale) provides databases and data analysis tools to study the evolution of galaxies from z=1 to z=0. It develops and maintain a general database, HyperLeda, to give a homogenized parameterization for 3 million objects, and several archives or specialized databases. It also develops tools to analyse on-the-fly data extracted from the database or obtained through the Virtual Observatory (Virtual Instruments). The package made for this project, Pleinpot, is distributed as open source. 
Ph. Prugniel, I. Chilingarian, H. Flores, J. Guibert, R. Haigron, I.   Jegouzo, F. Royer, F. Tajahmady, G. Theureau, J. Vetois