EMBL-EBI Integration Services: EBI Search

Dr. Jenny ChamUser Experience (UX) Analyst

User Experience Design for services online & for training

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UX

Our user community

UX work at the EBI…

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I just want a up-to-date summary of what is known

about this gene…

I just want to do one search and

get useful results!

I want to print out and share what I

have found…

What is EBI Search for?

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gene information

gene expression

protein knowledge

3D protein structures literature & patents

molecular interactions

reactions & pathways

Gene Ontology

EBI Search: key component of EBI’s data integration strategy

protein families & domains

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Search box on the homepagewww.ebi.ac.uk

• Target audience – ‘end users’/ lab-based researchers (i.e. not ‘power users’, not bioinformaticians)

• Launched: 31st January 2011

• Project leaders: • Graham Cameron• Ewan Birney

• User–centered/ UX design approach

EBI Search background…

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User experience evaluation

• 1-2-1 usability testing• 17 sites across Europe• >70 scientists• Industry & academia

• Several prototypes• Information content• Visual interface

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User testing eg.Cambridge Institute of Medical Research,

Addenbrookes Hospital

Feedback to internal data

providers

Changes to the interface

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Search box on the homepagewww.ebi.ac.uk

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Number of summaries available

Summaries are top hits

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Information organised by the Central Dogma of molecular biology

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Species selector

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PDF summary report to print & persistent unique URLs to share

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Demo

• “TCF7L2”• Gene from diabetes GWAS studies

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What next for EBI Search?

• Exploring new ways to include:• Chemistry & small molecules• Pathway and processes• Disease & phenotype• Cell lines, tissues or organs• Gene families and domains

• Ongoing tube map user research activities

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Acknowledgements• Project leaders: Ewan Birney, Graham Cameron, Rodrigo Lopez

• Developers: Mickael Goujon, Andy Jenkinson

• Data providers at EMBL-EBI and users who participated in user testing

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