PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nikhil Gopal
AU  - Andrew Su
AU  - Chunlei Wu
AU  - Sean D. Mooney
TI  - EXPLANe: An Extensible Framework for Poster Annotation with Mobile Devices
AID  - 10.1101/121178
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 121178
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/29/121178.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/29/121178.full
AB  - Summary Scientific posters tend to be brief, unstructured, and generally unsuitable for communication beyond a poster session. This paper describes EXPLANe, a framework for annotating posters using optical text recognition and web services on mobile devices. EXPLANe is demonstrated through an interface to the MyVariant.info variant annotation web services, and provides users a list of biological information linked with genetic variants (as found via extracted RSIDs from annotated posters). This paper delineates the architecture of the application, and includes results of a five-part evaluation we conducted. Researchers and developers can use the existing codebase as a foundation from which to generate their own annotation tabs when analyzing and annotating posters.Availability Alpha EXPLANe software is available as an open source application at https://github.com/ngopal/EXPLANeContact Sean D. Mooney (sdmooney{at}uw.edu)