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Session
The Open Notebook Project: How to Collate and Keep Updated Data from Scientific Web Sites
Gregory Quinn, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Track: Bioinformatics.Org
Date: Wednesday, February 05
Time: 2:15pm - 3:00pm
Location: Plaza
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is an open collaboration to calculate three-dimensional models and assign biological function for all recognizable proteins in all currently known genomes. Quinn scrutinizes the challenges to the end user of such a data-rich resource in collating and keeping current data collected during the course of an online session via the Web.

Recognizing the importance of providing suitable software tools to the end user, one task of the EOL project is the design of an "EOL Notebook," a Java-based application that is able to store and manipulate downloaded data. Using the SOAP-based interface to EOL data, the Notebook is able to remotely query and keep up-to-date downloaded data. The source code for this application will seed the "Open Notebook Project," an initiative to create a client-side repository for scientific data, using standards-based protocols such as Web services and scalable vector graphics (SVG) data presentation. The application will have a modular design to enable third-party devlopers to create specific modules for handling data content from particular Web sites. A thrust of the project will be in utilizing the many SOAP-based data projects coming online.