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- Context: A point was made that when building the user interface (the entry point), we might consider allowing our user to search for terms that appear in GenBank/GenPept Accession Records.
- Question: Beyond the Definition Line (as seen in FASTA), what terms would users like to be indexed in searches? The source/organism? The any of the fields in features?
Taxon name searches would be good. Otherwise, terms in def line would be fine(Jim)
- Context: In Phytome's subfamily selection page, it was mentioned that a user would need to be familiar w/ the organisms and have to recognize the IDs. The correlation was not obvious. It was suggested that the presence of the alias, for Phytome, in the subfamily selection page makes this a richer interface.
- Question: How should we provide the context/metadata to such a page so it is more clear to a user not intimately familiar with the organisms which subfamilies (or individual genes) to select? It seems like it is a 'needle in a stack needles' problem. In other words, the user will know - after they look through them all in great detail - which exact one that they want. Given the skill level indicated for the target user, making this step easy is a must.
Taxon name could be appended to the gene names or users could be given a table with taxon names listed in same row as gene names .... and perhaps best blast hit annotation. (Jim)
- Context: When developing a solution, consideration should be put into allow the user to mark or track hits from the original search all the way through the analysis.
- Questions:
- Would such functionality help solve the previous issue of marking the subfamilies to select easier?
Probably. Gene table with check boxes could include info mentioned above (Jim) - Is there an example of an application (desktop or web) that provides functionality like this?
- Would simple checkbox flagging be a sufficient first step to provide this?
If I understand what you are getting at here, PlantTribes may exhibit a useful way to organize the results of gene database queries - e.g. see YABBT example (Jim)
Open Questions
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