Hi BioMarters, (BioMartyrs?) I looked at the cancer genome biomart and it looks really great and the text field/menu completion stuff works great. The three levels of interface complexity are very nice. Overall, it's great to see things like "dataset" and "database" eliminated from the end user's experience.
The martreport pages are a useful addition but I wondered why on the icgc site the gene reports don't have any links to Ensembl, for example. Are such link-outs still configurable in 0.8+? A site (like us) with its own genome browser would want to be careful not to confuse the user with two subtly different gene report pages (hopefully showing the same information though!). Maybe a reasonably prominent "View this information in the source database (Database_name)" link/button or similar would work? I also feel with the advanced interface that a "count" button is lacking, but that is not dampening my enthusiasm about having this on VectorBase sometime this year I hope. Congratulations on a great job, and sorry if I missed any formal feedback questionnaires or focus groups. cheers, Bob. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.biomart.org/mailman/listinfo/users
