We were a bunch of players that were just about planning building a RNA library of pictures. So we had a collecton of shared photoshoot of the labs to be able to scroll through lab designs, instead of have to painstrikingly have to click several times each time one wants to see a design and jump the waiting time as well.
What originally kickstarted the idea was Brourd writing to me the other day:
I was chatting with another player about designs for the current lab, and the main point of interest was a design “kiwi.” Here, the central multiloop has the GC pairs all situated going around, however, I pointed out that designs like that may misfold. I then mentioned that I believe I saw it in the Cross lab, and he said that the amount of time would be too high. He then mentioned that it would be nice to see a list of designs/sequences that failed or succeeded.
Brourd suggested the idea to that we players should worked together on making a RNA picture library.
I discussed the idea with Mat to get more input on how this could be done. Here is a quick cut from our discussion:
mat747: i have ask for next/back tab/buttons for the lab
Eli Fisker: That will be great, I would really love this, it would by far be the easiest solution
Eli Fisker: Instead that we have to screenshoot all, especially if we want the shapedata and estimate mode in too
mat747: and a perview of the designs from the list
Eli Fisker: Exactly
Eli Fisker: I hope we get it some day
mat747: “483 MEDIUM Next/Back button to browse through lab designs in the design browser”
Eli Fisker: And we sort of need this as a training for when we get the ton of data from 10000 slots
So a piture library was the plan in combination with a next back button. Untill Jee threw in the big game changer later wto days ago. We just got the great news from Jee of the 1000 slots comming and synthesising of old data from previous labs.
With all these data comming our way soon, our picture library would be hopelessly outdated even before it could be made.
An automated solution will be much better than us photo shooting thousands of old results. It will help us all handle the many more results. Especially for old lab.
So this is what I suggest get incorporated into the game. The option to scroll through pictures of all designs in one lab.
Or as I found Soulrush saying in a recent chatlog: ”Would be nice to be able to highlight a portion of your structure, and have it search by position”.
That is the even better solution to a similar idea of mine about a visual RNA sequence search tool.