GENwave What is Google wave? What is a wave? A wave is equal parts - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
GENwave What is Google wave? What is a wave? A wave is equal parts - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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
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.
Sequenzer – Alice
- 2. Alice invites a Robot who reads the DNA-sequence of the
pherogram.
Sequenzer – Alice - Seqreader ...GCTGATCTGCGATCGACTCCG...
- 3. She now want to look for ORF: She invites ORFfinder.
... - Alice - ORFfinder ...GCTGATCTGCGATCGACTCCG... ORFfinder: No ORF found.
- 4. Alice has no clue what to do now,
so she invites Bob to the Wave.
... - Alice – ORFfinder - Bob Alice: Hey, what to do now? Bob: Why dont we BLAST it anyway?
- 5. Bob invites a BLASTrobot...
... - Alice – ORFfinder – Bob - Blast
- 6. ...who sees the sequence, does a
BLAST-search and answers...
Blast: See Result of Blast-search at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...
The API
Bob Alice External Programm (EMBOSS,...) Database Web Robot Python/Java Google Wave Wave