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beta.uniprot.org5 Lessons Learned

Eric JainSwiss Institute of BioinformaticsBOSC 2007, Vienna

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Mistake #1

Falling in love with technology.

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SOAP → REST

Relational DB → Lucene + BDB

Solution

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http://beta.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345.fasta

data set identifier format

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data set query

+format, sort, offset, limit, compress...

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Mistake #2

Relying on feedback from users and experts instead of observing users.

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Solution

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Mistake #3

Thinking that users can be classified as either beginners or as experts.

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Solution

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Mistake #4

Thinking we could do without the explicit backing of at least one person with lots of political power.

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Solution

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Mistake #5

Speaking over my allotted time.

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Workshop?

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