May 26, 2016 – Conference call with Staman

Call length: 30 minutes
Participants (those who have spoken): Emily, Kai, Zan, Greg, and Shufei
Here is the prototype of the integrated Genome summary
TSV generator (Javascript code on the front end) has been optimized
  • Reduced the number of loops in the code.
  • More detailed description in the code commit.
    • A lot of the code changes take place GenomeSummaryDataManager.js, such as th createMatrix function.
  • Speed improvement
    • Old code: 50×50 to take 5 second 100×100 about 12 second
    • New code: 100×100 takes only 50ms…almost instantaneous!
  • More details can be found here: http://studio.stamen.com/metag/blog/2016/05/26/genome-summary-integration/
  • They told us to definitely pull the new TSV generator code to use
  • When clicking on the cell, it takes you to the page.
    • Wasn’t quite working when they were demonstrating this feature.
Visualization improvement
  • You can now use different color scheme by changing the URL. It will be drop down in the future.
    • available options are nightrider, lightrider, classic.
    • example: color=lightrider
  • You can also change the cell size in the URL.
    • example: cellsize=4
  • label length is too long, how to deal with that?
    • That’s a problem we have to deal with so would be interested in their solution.
User feedback
  • I asked them when they will conduct user feedback:
    • They were thinking about getting feedback from users after you return
    • They wanted to wait until they have integrated the new TSV generator code so that user can experience the improved performance.
    • They planned to first reach out to Rose and then the other folks.
  • I told them to reach out to the users sooner
    • They don’t need to wait until you come back or after the integration.
    • They should show this new design and start getting user feedback.
    • What do you think?
I will work with Greg on integrating his code into our system.
Emily wanted to talk about the budget and the direction of the project in the next couple weeks, but I told her that she will need to talk to you about that.