IllinoisTools/25 July 2009

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Donny

I worked with Nate on exporting the results of the web page (specifically CSV). I also spent a large amount of time reorganizing the website (for easier navigation and also to more clearly display the results).

Nate

This week, I worked a lot on the design of our wiki. Now that we have finally decided on a name for our web-tool, IMPtools, I was able to create a logo for our website. This logo I have also included on our wiki. In addition to this logo, I have also developed more graphics to personalize each section of our wiki page. I also redesigned our navigation bar, as the old one was a bother. Towards the end of the week, I also worked on the possibility of CSV file export for our web-tool. Ideally, we hope to be able to export a user's results/data in a CSV file format so that they can open it up in Microsoft Excel. I was not so successful with this, but fortunately Donny was able to figure out how to get a csv file to be exported from our web-tool. Now all we need to do is format the file that is to be exported. We still have a lot of work to do for our web-tool, such as the look and feel of the website.

Palak

Over past few days I took the dictionaries that Nate assembled and put them in our database. I also spent some time taking the scripts he wrote to assemble the dictionaries and turning them into scripts that would update the database. I ran into difficulty trying to write some of them such that they only updated the database rather than rewriting the whole thing.

Riyad

Looking over how to make a s-matrix

Kanishka

Read articles and looked into other software tools that provided similar features like metabolic pathway modeling and analyzing biological networks.