Face Caucus UCSC: User Interface Issues

Kate Rosenbloom, UCSC Genome Bioinformatics

1. Intro
- Home Page
- List of genomes
- Hardware
- Usage
- Contributors

2. Overview of UCSC Web Tools for Bioinformatics
- Gateway page & Genome Browser
- Table Browser
- ENCODE browser
- Gene Sorter
- Visigene
- BLAT
- Download server

3. New features
- Wiki
- Session management
- Custom track management
- Track reordering
- Multiple alignment display
- Genome graphs

4. GMOD scenarios
A. Search by gene name, view gene page
B. Search for gene by phenotype or GO term
C. Customized gene report
D. Bulk output from query
E. Combining with info from other sources

5. User Interface Issues & Challenges
- Jim's UI guidelines
- User support: Mailing List, FAQ's
- Challenges:
- Data overload (track groups, multiple similar datasets)
- Data ordering

6. Acknowledgements