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OMICSPEDIA demo: http://omicspedia.ucsd.edu/

Main page (Entrance to the website):

We are still thinking about what to show on the main page. I'll look into what other major websites display and design our own main page.

site navigation / tour:

  • Should have a sitemap that displays the core components of the website.
  • A 2-min tour that takes user around the website, show the basics.
  • A comprehensive user book that explains the community rules.

Core components

Community-maintained knowledge base that explains the basic concepts and workflows of OMICS data, and beyond.

Q&A&F (Questions; Answer; Forum):

A standard Q&A application with some extension support for forum-style posts. Since discussions and recommendations for reading are very common and useful, I'm thinking of adding support for forum-style posts in parallel with Q&A. But we'll discuss that.

A software database that catalogs existing OMICS programs.

Scripts that deal with simple common tasks, like assign peak to gene, convert gene IDs.

Auxiliary components:

Building up reputations is a major initiative for users to contribute to the community. We can think of various means to reward top contributors, like giving travel awards that can reimburse for attending academic conferences.

Tags is the means to locate information that users are interested in. Wiki, posts and software are all annotated with tags.

A transparent META panel that users can engage in monitoring and improving the website.

Please leave any comments and thoughts you come up with in whithin this section.