| | 294 | The satellite group on Galaxy discussed the usability issues including |
| | 295 | workflows, tools, internationalization and authentication, and |
| | 296 | developed the solutions for the issues. Galaxy is an interactive |
| | 297 | platform to process biological data using various tools to obtain form |
| | 298 | data sources, to analyze and to share the data. Galaxy is as a data processing hub to import from various data sources |
| | 299 | such as local files, web site urls, BioMart and UCSC Genome Browser, |
| | 300 | and to export to various applications as well. To enhance this hub |
| | 301 | scenario, we developed data import/export tools, visualization and |
| | 302 | text-mining tools which are the rest of the Galaxy tools. We developed |
| | 303 | two-way communication to import data from wormbase and export data to |
| | 304 | wormbase on gbowse. We developed the data import tool via TogoWS to extend data sources |
| | 305 | including databases on the NCBI, EBI, KEGG, DDBJ and PDBj web service |
| | 306 | API. We developed a bookmarklet to visualize the selected database ID |
| | 307 | string (c.f. PDB ID) on the original web site. Such function can be |
| | 308 | replaced by the semantics web technology. And we developed text-mining |
| | 309 | tools against the MEDLINE abstract. Such the research line is |
| | 310 | prospective. On the usability issues, Galaxy could not deal with non-ascii |
| | 311 | characters in the data and the messages. The characters often appear |
| | 312 | in the gene symbols and the full text articles. And Galaxy have |
| | 313 | messages in English only. End-users of such the interactive workflow |
| | 314 | platform are not only researchers but also technicians in the |
| | 315 | worldwide. Often they are awkward in English to read and/or |
| | 316 | understand. Therefore we solved the issues of multilingualization and |
| | 317 | internationalization to develop the internationalization Galaxy by |
| | 318 | using the standard GetText library and the UTF-8 character set. Galaxy |
| | 319 | can use the external authentication system such as OpenID. We |
| | 320 | developed the mod_openid based front application. In addition, we discussed the user support materials. Although a high |
| | 321 | standard of graphical user interface on the web application is too |
| | 322 | complex to describe text, it is difficult to communicate between |
| | 323 | end-user biologists and developers without graphical materials such as |
| | 324 | screencasts. Galaxy provides a series of screencasts for the |
| | 325 | end-users. Such the use of screencast to support users is one of the |
| | 326 | best practice for web application. |
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