We have been developing mockup versions of new web interfaces for the Phenoscape Knowledgebase. In order to design an updated interface which is both more powerful and easier to use than the existing one, in February I presented a series of mockups to faculty, post-docs, and graduate students at the University of Oregon, the home of ZFIN. Following user-testing expertise at ZFIN, I met with the researchers in pairs and recorded their feedback on newly designed interfaces for viewing anatomical and taxonomic terms within the ontology hierarchy, configurable queries for phenotype annotations, and data visualization on phylogenetic trees. The feedback proved to be extremely valuable and has led to several modifications to the planned interface revisions.
Revising the Knowledgebase interface
March 24, 2010
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Beta release of the Phenoscape Knowledgebase
October 12, 2009We are pleased to announce the beta release of the Phenoscape Knowledgebase (KB) at http://kb.phenoscape.org/ and would like to solicit feedback.
Phenoscape KB integrates phenotypic data from genetic studies of zebrafish with evolutionarily variable phenotypes from the literature of fishes. It currently contains 333,987 phenotype statements about 2,310 taxa (mainly ostariophysan fishes), from 51 publications, and 11,267 phenotype statements about 2,953 genes retrieved from ZFIN (zfin.org). You can explore these data by searching for anatomical terms, taxa (by Latin name), or genes (by ZFIN gene symbol). Read the rest of this entry »
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