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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<li class="navig_bar_button"><a href="Homepage.html">Home</a></li>
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<li><a href="Project_Overview.html">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="Project_Installation.html">Installation</a></li>
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<h1 id = "headerImageh1">Overview</h1>
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<h1 class="grey-text heading-weight" align = "center">Background</h1>
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<p id = "doubleSpace" class="p-font grey-text">Two years ago the Michigan Software 2014 team began development
of ProtoCat 1.0. Like many innovative ideas, ProtoCat began because of a problem.
<a class="a-over" href="https://peerj.com/articles/148">Studies</a> have estimated
that only 10-25% of published scientific results are reproducible. A 2014 survey conducted
by the Michigan Software team confirmed that the repeatability problem exists in synthetic
biology, with every scientist surveyed reporting prior struggles with replicating protocols.
The majority of these scientists indicated unclear language and missing steps are the greatest
contributors to the irreproducibility of synthetic biology protocols. A <a class="a-over"
href="http://2015.igem.org/Team:Michigan_Software/Outreach">second study</a> conducted by last
year's Michigan Software team only further confirmed the sentiments of the first study. These
issues are what ProtoCat has been designed to solve.
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<h1 class="grey-text heading-weight" align = "center">Solution</h1>
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<p id = "doubleSpace" class="p-font grey-text">Every respondent of the second survey indicated that they
would use a database to browse and download protocols, with over 85% indicating that
they would upload and maintain their own protocols if such a site existed. ProtoCat 3.0
is a free database of crowd sourced protocols designed to make existing protocols more
repeatable and enable more accurate computational models of biological systems. We believe
this can most efficiently be accomplished with a commitment to open source protocols and a
broader more active community of digital troubleshooters. ProtoCat 3.0 works to establish
such a community by giving anyone with an internet connection or smartphone access to a
repository of synthetic biology protocols collected from all over the world. Additionally,
ProtoCat 3.0 encourages the development of higher quality, more repeatable protocols by
allowing users to document, rate, review, and edit existing methods.
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<h1 class="grey-text heading-weight" align = "center">ProtoCat 4.0</h1>
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<p id = "doubleSpace" class="p-font grey-text">ProtoCat 4.0 is optimized for collaboration among users
and offers the best user experinece we have developed. We've added features such as threaded comments,
notifications, protocol favoriting, and a new chat system called ProtoChat in this
years verions of ProtoCat. Now users can communicate through commenting and chatting
to make improvements on existing protocols or favorite one they like to quickly relocate
it. ProtoCat also recieved a password recover system, notifications, and a better search
algorithm to search more fields of a protocol. In addition, users can now create drafts
of a protocol which allows them to start and finish a new protocol at their convienience.
These are are all important features that contribute to a better user experience and our
best version of ProtoCat.
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<p><a href="Project_Overview.html">Overview</a></p>
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<p><a href="Project_Results.html">Results</a></p>
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<p><a href="Attributions.html">Attributions</a></p>
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<p><a href="Outreach_HP_Gold.html">HP Gold</a></p>
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