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课程名称：癌症信息学的文档与可用性 课程概述： 癌症数据集数量众多且复杂，蕴含着可能对研究进展至关重要的信息。研究人员依赖不断发布和开发的专业数据工具来充分利用这些数据。然而，生物信息学工具往往对用户不够友好，尤其是对没有编程背景的用户（Bolchini等，2008）。工具的可用性和文档质量是研究人员能否有效获取研究发现的重要因素。 提高工具文档的可用性和质量不仅有利于研究人员，也有助于开发者。工具的可用性越高，其所投入的研发工作将产生更大的影响。根据Duck等（2016）的调查，70%的生物信息学工具在其初始发布后未被再使用。即便是编程优秀的工具，如果缺乏用户友好的文档，用户社区也可能会忽视它。 适用人群： 本课程面向癌症信息学工具开发者，尤其是参与癌症研究信息技术的开发者。 学习目标： 1. 理解可用性和文档的重要性 2. 识别用户社区 3. 创建文档和教程以提升开发工具的可用性 4. 从用户那里获取反馈 课程内容： 本课程将展示如何理解可用性和文档的重要性，识别用户社区，构建文档和教程以提升工具的可用性，以及如何从用户获取反馈。课程包括实际操作练习，提供文档和教程构建的模板，参课者可在学习过程中使用这些模板，增加他们信息学工具的可用性。 本课程是癌症研究信息技术教育资源（ITCR）系列课程的一部分，由美国的研究人员协作创建，旨在通过资源、技术和活动支持癌症信息学和数据科学的培训。该项目由国家癌症研究所（NCI）资助，课程特色是由ITCR研究人员开发的工具，旨在简化主要研究人员、科学家和分析师在其工作流程中整合癌症信息学的操作。更多信息请访问我们的网站：www.itcrtraining.org。 课程大纲： 第一部分：借鉴用户设计师的经验 描述：讨论用户设计领域的可用性概念及其对信息学工具开发的影响。 第二部分：创建顺畅的入门指南 描述：讨论如何编写一个能够帮助用户顺利了解工具概念和操作的入门部分。 第三部分：创建实用参考指南 描述：讨论参考指南的哪些方面可以帮助用户排查问题和解答疑问。 第四部分：获取用户反馈 描述：讨论如何获取用户反馈以增强工具的可用性。 第五部分：如何保持文档的更新 描述：讨论如何确保文档始终保持最新。
Part: 1
Title:Lessons we should borrow from user designers
Description:In this section, we will discuss broader concepts of usability from the field of user design and what that might mean for informatics tool development.
Part: 2
Title:Creating a smooth getting started section
Description:In this section we will discuss how to make a getting started section that nicely eases a user into the concepts and workings of a tool.
Part: 3
Title:Creating handy reference guides
Description:In this section we will discuss what aspects of reference guides can help users troubleshoot and answer questions that arise.
Part: 4
Title:Obtaining user feedback
Description:In this section we will discuss how to obtain user feedback to enhance the usability of your tool.
Part: 5
Title:How to keep your documentation up-to-date
Description:In this section we discuss how to keep your documentation up to date.
Introduction: Cancer datasets are plentiful, complicated, and hold information that may be critical for the next research advancements. In order to use these data to their full potential, researchers are dependent on the specialized data tools that are continually being published and developed. Bioinformatics tools can often be unfriendly to their users, who often have little to no background in programming (Bolchini et al. 2008). The usability and quality of the documentation of a tool can be a major factor in how efficiently a researcher is able to obtain useful findings for the next steps of their research. Increasing the usability and quality of documentation for a tool is not only helpful for the researcher users, but also for the developers themselves – the many hours of work put into the product will have a higher impact if the tool is usable by the target user community. 70% of bioinformatics tools surveyed by Duck et al. (2016) were not reused beyond their introductory publication. Even the most well-programmed tool will be overlooked by the user community if there is little to no user-friendly documentation or if they were not designed with the user in mind. Target Audience: The course is intended for cancer informatics tool developers, particularly those creating tools as a part of the Informatics Technology Cancer Research. Learning Objectives: 1. Understanding why usability and documentation is vital 2. Identifying your user community 3. Building documentation and tutorials to maximize the usability of developed tools 4. Obtaining feedback from your users Curriculum: This course will demonstrate how to: Understanding why usability and documentation is vital, Identifying your user community, Building documentation and tutorials to maximize the usability of developed tools, Obtaining feedback from your users The course includes a hands-on exercises with templates for building documentation and tutorials for cancer informatics tools. Individuals who take this course are encouraged to use these templates as they follow along with the course material to help increase the usability of their informatics tool. This course is part of a series of courses for the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) called the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research Education Resource. This material was created by the ITCR Training Network (ITN) which is a collaborative effort of researchers around the United States to support cancer informatics and data science training through resources, technology, and events. This initiative is funded by the following grant: National Cancer Institute (NCI) UE5 CA254170. Our courses feature tools developed by ITCR Investigators and make it easier for principal investigators, scientists, and analysts to integrate cancer informatics into their workflows. Please see our website at www.itcrtraining.org for more information.
