Explore the feasibility of porting notebooks to use Jupyter widgets

[ElDeveloper]

Doing so might allow us to make the user experience a bit better. Although I am sure there might be some downsides if the inputs can't be serialized and preserved to know which values were used to generate a particular output.

Some docs on widgets:
https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io

This blogpost from zymergen shows an example on how they used Jupyter + widgets to create a UI for dealing with 96-well plates:
https://www.zymergen.com/blog/technology/tips-for-developing-user-facing-tools-in-jupyter-notebooks/