Problem
Many biologists became a biologist as they love life sciences, and not the computational side of things.
Solution
Having ground up UX development with background in life science domains to develop well-understood UIs for bioinformatics and other life science end users that target the domain expertise of a biologists, not a generic user. Let the scientists do what they do best, and enable them though building the right software.
About UXBio
UXBio concept
Biologists should not have to learn programming to be effective at their jobs. If apps are targeted at life sciences, they should be designed with a biologist in mind. I have seen too many UX designers without sufficient biological background to effective understand the domain and design for the users that will be affected! How are you going to build a bridge if you have never used one? How will you read a book if you don't know how to read the language it is written in?
UXBio understands the ever changing landscape of biology and genomics, and aims to keep more people that love biology continuing to love biology, without having to worry about having to program something just evaluate their biological data. We build apps help biologists.
Genelinea
Genelinea is an app built at UXBio by biologists, for biologists
The first app built at UXBio for biologists was Genelinea. The goal was to take sequence data to biological insight. A user can drag and drop a GenBank file (genomic data) and run genomic comparisons and genome subtraction increadibly fast. This can show a biological user signifint collelation data in minutes. If you tried to do it manually it would take a standard user about 3 months of effort, if they can get it to work with a mix of Perl, python and linux libraries to work with.
