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Organization: Common project management and governance structure |
Ability to leverage unique capabilities and expertise to enhance genome resources |
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Organization: Centralized user Help Desk |
Single point of access for inquiries about data for any organism in the Alliance |
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Organization: Coordinated software development |
Rapid propagation of access to new data types and interfaces across model organisms |
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Process: Data harmonization |
Essential for developing user interfaces with a unified “look and feel” for common data types |
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Process: Automated processes for concise, human-readable summaries of gene function |
A short, human readable summary of gene function standardized across all model organisms in the Alliance |
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Data: Common set of orthologs |
Supports comparisons of gene function, phenotype, and disease annotations among model organisms and with human data |
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Data: Common protein–protein interaction data |
Leverage existing community resources to provide a common set of PPI data for all model organisms in the Alliance (Orchard et al. 2012; Oughtred et al. 2019)
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Interface: Sequence display widget |
Common graphical representation of transcripts for a gene |
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Interface: JBrowse genome browser |
Adoption of externally developed software as the standard genome browser for all model organisms Skinner et al. (2009)
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Interface: “Ribbon” widget for visualizing gene function and expression annotation summaries |
Unified visualization paradigm for annotation summary information across all model organisms in the Alliance |
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Interface: Common web pages for genes and diseases |
Consistent organization of common data types across all model organisms in the Alliance |
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Interface: Common application programming interface for common data types |
Single point of programmatic access for common data types across all model organisms in the Alliance |
