GenSpace

From Informatics

• Features
  • Description
    • Use Cases/Things to do

• Transactions/pipelines
  • Treat various analysis run as a pipeline
    • People using the same tools in a pipeline
    • Find other sessions which involve same analysis
• Ontology
  • Use domain knowledge (through config files of ontology) to group tools
    • Data mining using rollups for other use cases (e.g. suggest a user to use "network clustering" tool rather than tool A)
    • Show window to user showing hierarchy of tools in the ontology
• Login/Privacy
  • Improve the whole login procedure
    • Authenticate against central server
    • Ask user for preferences for either "log, log anonymously, dont log"
• Miscellaneous
  • Miscellaneous features to be added to genspace
    • Users can rate tools
    • Users can see their own past history
    • Users can see experts for different filetypes (fasta, exp, etc.)
• Online Help
  • Provide documentation for usage and help through geworkbench
• Groups
  • Use manually and automatically created groups to group users into various different "social networks"
    • Work on the whole concept of groups
    • People can join groups either manually or automatically
    • Allow all "assisted decisions" per group basis (like the most popular tool in the group, expert in group, etc.)
• Workspace/File Sharing
  • This can be used by users to share their files and workspaces with other users
    • Need to investigate more in detail especially with respect to to security/privacy issues
• Statistics
  • Provide detailed statistics on geworkbench usage
    • Admin Section and (maybe) users can see what tools are used the most in a group, overall, etc.
• User Logout
  • Notify the genspace server when a user logs out of geworkbench
    • Either Kiran adds a hook to geworkbench or we use a "heartbeat" mechanism