Phenoscape web UI

Development Roadmap

February 2009

• Incorporate 1/5/09 team feedback on existing interface components
  • Anatomy term search results - reorganize according to sketch
  • Gene search results - reorganize according to sketch
  • Taxonomic phenotype results page - add Order column for taxonomic grouping
  • Present various phenotypic results grouped by custom "character slim"
    • Requires slim development by team members (Wasila, Paula) and service implementation by Cartik
• Taxon search interface
  • Mockup interface using dummy data within web application - request group feedback
    • Front page search interface and results table - may include intermediate results summary page
  • Design data service schema to be implemented by Cartik
  • Implement using live data service once developed by Cartik
• Interface demo and feedback session - DECAP meeting, Feb. 27, 2009
  • Present screenshots and mockups
  • Possible live demo depending on data service performance progress
    • Services should return in no more than 2 seconds
    • Evaluate feasibility 2 weeks before meeting

March 2009

• Mockup publication data interface within web application -- should these mockups be available for DECAP meeting in February?
• Incorporate publication data into user interface
  • Incorporate publication links into annotation results displays
    • Columns referencing numbers of taxonomic phenotype or mutant phenotype match results will be accompanied by a column including number of publications referencing the search item
    • Link from publication count to a publication listing
  • Publication listing includes brief citation each of which links to a publication detail page
  • Publication detail page(s)
    • Full citation information
    • Display curator credits
    • Display or link to original matrix including free-text data and specimen listing
    • Display or link to all phenotype annotations resulting from publication
  • Requires publication data implementation in OBD by Cartik
  • Requires specimen data implementation in OBD by Cartik

April 2009

• "Splashy" search entry page - we should have a more graphically capturing entry gateway for exploring the data content
  • One of the following:
    • Hierarchical term explorer
    • Visual explorer, using schematic drawings ("the prototypical fish")
    • Visual explorer using 3D scans of catfish (and eventually zebrafish when done).
  • Should explore various prototypes of these ideas using HTML mockups and get feedback from project team
  • Implement preferred interface
• Possible user testing session in conjunction with RCN meeting at NESCent

May 2009

• Taxonomy-based tree-mapped data perspective
  • View taxonomic phenotype annotation results organized by a phylogenetic tree
  • Group phenotypes as simplistic union of descendant nodes, rather than ancestral reconstruction
  • Use taxonomy as basis for phylogenetic tree
  • Develop HTML mockups in web application
  • Implement based on project team feedback
• Implement appropriate scalable deployment of web application
  • Multiple application instances and load balancing

Release candidate - June 2009

• Project team testing
• Bug fixes
• Overall performance evaluation