Re: [Gmod-ajax] Article: Using game design to build the next Digg or Flickr

[Ian H. <ih...@be...>]

How would this compare with existing systems e.g. Ensembl MART?


Mitch Skinner wrote:
> Ian Holmes wrote:
>> So I keep posting this sort of thing even though I really don't know how 
>> relevant these things are, and of course we do have a long list of more 
>> practical immediate things to do (like, um, getting something that we 
>> can seamlessly use in place of an existing GBrowse instantiation, 
>> ideally before modENCODE is history...)
>>   
> 
> I like the game angle; it seems like it could be a pretty rich vein of 
> new UI ideas, which I get a big kick out of.
> 
> However, if at all possible I'd like to start moving things in a more 
> concrete/applied direction.
> 
> Like collecting, for example.  We've talked about collecting things like 
> tracks, but I think a lot of biologists would also be interested in 
> collecting individual features (genes).  That's something that the 
> biologists that I've worked with liked to do a lot (then they'd send me 
> Excel files full of gene symbols that weren't necessarily the 
> standardized symbols). Then I can also imagine them wanting to see SNPs 
> near their genes, regulatory elements near their genes, etc.
> 
> I've been thinking that I'd like to make track definitions just be 
> queries on a genomic data source (plus some information on how to render 
> the result).  That's pretty much how the gbrowse config works right now; 
> each track is defined in terms of the type of the feature to be 
> displayed in it.  But I'd like to also allow for queries that are more 
> general than just by type, for tracks like "the genes I'm interested in" 
> or "SNPs near the genes I'm interested in", "SNPs near the genes that 
> are active during development phase foo", "genes that are under GO term 
> such-and-such", etc.
> 
> Mitch
> 
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