RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 EXPLANe: An Extensible Framework for Poster Annotation with Mobile Devices
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 121178
DO 10.1101/121178
A1 Nikhil Gopal
A1 Andrew Su
A1 Chunlei Wu
A1 Sean D. Mooney
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/29/121178.abstract
AB Summary Scientific posters tend to be brief, unstructured, and generally unsuitable for communication beyond a poster session. This paper describes EXPLANe, a framework for annotating posters using optical text recognition and web services on mobile devices. EXPLANe is demonstrated through an interface to the MyVariant.info variant annotation web services, and provides users a list of biological information linked with genetic variants (as found via extracted RSIDs from annotated posters). This paper delineates the architecture of the application, and includes results of a five-part evaluation we conducted. Researchers and developers can use the existing codebase as a foundation from which to generate their own annotation tabs when analyzing and annotating posters.Availability Alpha EXPLANe software is available as an open source application at https://github.com/ngopal/EXPLANeContact Sean D. Mooney (sdmooney{at}uw.edu)