GenSpace
From Informatics
- Features
- Description
- Use Cases/Things to do
- Description
- 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
- Use domain knowledge (through config files of ontology) to group tools
- Online Help
- Provide documentation for usage and help through geworkbench
- 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
- This can be used by users to share their files and workspaces with other users
- 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.
- Provide detailed statistics on geworkbench usage
- User Study on geWorkbench
- How does geWorkbench fit into the ideal bioinformatics workflow?
- Find "Expert" researchers (ex, people who do a lot of research, not necessarily with geWorkbench)
- Observe their process, fit geWorkbench around it
- Create a survey/study on the effectiveness of genSpace
- How does geWorkbench fit into the ideal bioinformatics workflow?
- Project management
- Create a folksonomy of analyses, tagging them with the task that researchers are actually working on
- Utilize the logs that we have to create a research log to assist with analyses
- Allow PI's to track research status
- Workflow management
- Allow creating, saving, sharing of workflows
- Integration with the scripting engine
- Allow creating, saving, sharing of workflows
- Social Features
- Add chat, screen sharing, and workflow sharing
- Add groups
- "Real" groups - People from lab X
- "Virtual" groups - People who use tool Y
- 360° feedback on geWorkbench and genSpace
- Get feedback from users from within the app
- Add a context-sensitive feedback loop
- Provide an optional "Tips" system to push news to users
- Get feedback from users from within the app
- Port genSpace to a web interface
- Broaden the genSpace website
- Simple enhancements
- Search
- Social networking integration
- Facebook, twitter, etc linking
- Simple enhancements
- From the core group:
- Capturing end/abort of long-duration analyses
- Improving parameter logging
- Capturing analyses run on the grid (BLAST, etc)
