GENwave
What is Google wave?
What is a wave? ● A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. ● A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when. ● A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real- time. Watch the video at wave.google.com to get an impression how it works
What makes wave interesting for use in labs? ● Google created an powerful API witch makes it easy to write „robots“. These can be used to communicate with bioinformatical software or even with machines in the lab in a very simple and natural way. ● There is a „playback“-function witch allows you to review all the changes that were made in the past. That should really help you writing the lab journal. ● You can work together in real-time, no matter where you are.
Example Alice has extracted some DNA and now wants to identify it. 1. She puts it in a sequencer. The sequencer is linked to a Wave-Robot, who sends a wave with the electropherogram to Alice when ready. 2. Alice invites a Robot who reads the DNA-sequence of the pherogram. 3. She now want to look for ORF: She invites ORFfinder. 4. Alice has no clue what to do now, so she invites Bob to the Wave. ... - Alice – ORFfinder – Bob - Blast Sequenzer – Alice - Seqreader ... - Alice – ORFfinder - Bob ... - Alice - ORFfinder Sequenzer – Alice 5. Bob invites a BLASTrobot... ...GCTGATCTGCGATCGACTCCG... ...GCTGATCTGCGATCGACTCCG... 6. ...who sees the sequence, does a ORFfinder: No ORF found. BLAST-search and answers... Alice: Hey, what to do now? Bob: Why dont we BLAST it anyway? Blast: See Result of Blast-search at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...
The API Alice Bob Wave Google Wave Robot Python/Java External Programm Database Web (EMBOSS,...)
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