[go] AmiGO beta announcement

[Mary Dolan]

David Hill <dph at informatics.jax.org> on Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 8:15 AM -0500 wrote:
>
>I think the important thing I am trying to get at is that if someone 
>writes a paper using one of the tools we provide, we need to have a way 
>of tracking how they did their analysis so the 'experiment' can be 
>repeated if necessary. I have been frustrated in the past trying to 
>figure out how people got results they did when I couldn't repeat the 
>analysis.
>
>Amelia Ireland wrote:
>> For general AmiGO stuff, the DB version is at the bottom of the page, as
>> Ben noted. I don't know whether including the version of the GO being used
>> would be TMI [too much information] for the average user, plus I'm not
>> sure whether that info is actually in the database at the moment - it
>> shows the load date, but not the version number of the GO file. If people
>> feel this is something that would be useful to have, a simple page with
>> that data (and any other useful metadata) could be created.
>>

Hi, David.
I like Amelia's suggestion of having 
1. db version info on the page -- which is sufficient for most users. But I think it would be useful to have a prominently featured link to
2. an additional, separate page with the other data (which can be a lot of information). As you say, folks often need the details to reproduce analyses.
Mary

Mary E. Dolan, Ph.D.
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