User Interface

This page gathers thoughts and ideas about the user interface, mainly based on feedback from users of BioModels Database.

Repository browsing

• default order of the page listing the models: from new to old
• possibility of grouping of models from same article and/or same model
• do not display the model identifier (end user don't care)
• display of the beginning of the abstract, with the whole on mouseover
• display thumbnail of the reaction graph?
• display keywords
• display of mesh terms (keywords of publication)
• potentially do not display the "last modification date"
• allow customisation of the columns displayed
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Model Display

• display the reaction graph and/or curation graph (thumbnail) more prominently
• display abstract of the publication (or at least the 1st paragraph)
• better display acknowledgements (authors, submitter, creator, curators, ...)
• more notes about the curation figures with better formatting
• more info displayed for un-curated models
• download button should directly allow the download of the curated version, with a subarea for selecting different formats
• access to the model of the month (if any) should be more prominent
• the "Action" menu should renamed to "simulation" (with access to JWS and the embedded online tool), the access to the reaction graph should be moved somewhere else
• annotations: always try to retrieve some human readable info and display it, instead of a raw identifier
• content of the tabs Overview-Math-Physical Entities-Parameters is not usable for the end user: why not have a graphical reaction map instead? Then the submodel creation feature would be much more usable as well.
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