| Very cool idea! I think you should think carefully about the use cases. Is it for someone who wants to take a gene from one organism, move it to another and then order that organism?
Is it for people wanting to manually tweak genes to improve efficiency, slightly change function? What kinds of manual tweaks?
Is it for someone who wants to understand how an organism works? When /I/ look at it, I think it could benefit from being more abstract, but I am not your target audience, so take this with a grain of salt. I don't think looking at individual base pairs is useful. Amino acids might be, but are still too emphasized in the interface. The most abstract view, showing genes in order is not abstract enough. I want to see genes grouped by function (e.g. reproductory system, energy production, acidity regulation etc). For each gene I want to see: a) High level description of function (already there, but in a single line text field. Give more screen estate). b) What activates the gene? i) Directly (e.g high concentration of Na+) ii) Indirectly (e.g. genes a, b, c) iii) Very Indirectly (environmental stress) c) As exact specification as possible of what happens when it is activated: i) What does it activate in turn? ii) What does it catalyze? |