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NeXO Web App Design Overview

The goal of this project is providing a simple, easy-to-use web application for searching NeXO term. This web site will be the portal of NeXO-related data and applications.

Requirements

This web site/application should satisfy the following requirements:

• Provide a simple UI for searching NeXO term
  • By term ID
  • By keywords
• Visualize the path(s) from the term to root
• Display annotation as table - list of term-to-protein mappings
• Provide access through simple RESTful API
  • Represents a term as a resource (URI)
    • Example: nexo.org/term/6155
  • Return as JSON
• Batch download - distribute NeXO DAG data files as:
  • OBO
  • OWL (RDF)
  • CYS (Cytoscape Session File)
• Link to aligned GO terms (?)

Details are available Requirments.

Mockups

Technology

• Use light-weight, modern web application frameworks.
  • Backend: Node.js + Express
  • Frontend: Backbone.js
• Store NeXO DAG in a graph database for flexible query
  • Neo4j
• Render results using modern JavaScript toolkits
  • cytoscape.js
  • d3.js