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Special case: what do I do when one single panel refers to multiple genes. E.g. panel B displays the expression of 3 different genes
  
 
'''Let's go one step further:'''
 
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Revision as of 16:53, 30 September 2010

links to relevant pages
Caltech documentation
PIctures


Picture Curation

The immediate goal of picture curation is to be able to obtain images of gene expression data from the literature and individual laboratories and display them in the WormBase gene expression page.

  • We want display images related to the temporal or spatial (e.g., tissue, subcellular, etc.) localization of any gene in a wild-type background with different data types
    • Reporter gene analysis
    • Antibody staining
    • In situ hybridization
    • RT-PCR
    • Western or Northern blot data

Pipeline

In the early phases of curation, pictures will be taken from open access journals (e.g. PLoS). During the process of PLoS image curation, other publishers will be contacted for obtaining copyright permissions.

The images should be saved and stored according to the following guidelines. The example shown below refers to a PLoS Biology paper but the rules of handling the pictures are universal and not "paper specific".


Pictures are downloaded in TIFF format from the original paper.

PictureA.png


Pictures are saved with their original name in order to minimize editing from the curator. In this case the file is called “journal.pbio.0020352.g006”.

The file is saved in a directory named after the WB paper ID. E.g.: WBPaper00024505, meaning that picture “journal.pbio.0020352.g006” has been downloaded from WBPaper00024505.


PictureB.png

These 2 numbers together WBPaper00024505_journal.pbio.0020352.g006 will be UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS of the object, that we call Picture object 1 (WBPicture000000001). The ID WBPicture000000001 will be the NAME of the object in the Picture Data Model.

The path WBPaper00024505_journal.pbio.0020352.g006 will define the SOURCE of the object in the Picture Data Model.

Now look at the picture above: In our WormBase expression pattern page we don’t want to display the whole picture because it contains information not pertinent to the expression data. We therefore need to CROP the 2 pictures depicting expression of the gene in the Wild Type. We want to have only panel B and F.

Each panel is cropped from the original picture in Photoshop and the files are saved as “journal.pbio.0020352.g006_B” “journal.pbio.0020352.g006_F” in the same directory as before: WBPaper00024505

PictureC.png


These will be respectively Picture object 2(WBPicture000000002) and Picture object 3 (WBPicture000000003).


To summarize till now:

Picture object 1: WBPicture000000001: WBPaper00024505_ journal.pbio.0020352.g006

Picture object 2 WBPicture000000002: WBPaper00024505_ journal.pbio.0020352.g006_B

Picture object 3: WBPicture000000003: WBPaper00024505_ journal.pbio.0020352.g006_F

where WBPicture000000001 corresponds to the NAME of the object in the picture data model and WBPaper00024505_ journal.pbio.0020352.g006 corresponds to the SOURCE of the object in the picture data model.


At the same time, the text file associated with the entire figure WBPicture000000001, is saved with the same name as the figure -journal.pbio.0020352.g006- with a .doc extension. In this way we can make sure which figure legend goes with which picture.


PictureE1.png


NB: The size of the original TIFF file varies from 1 to 20 MB (in the examples observed till now). In order to minimize the space, the cropped images will be converted into PNG files (100KB to 2MB). We anyway have the parental image for users access. Supplementary material is generally stored by journals as PDF files. The PDF is converted in TIFF for consistency.

Special case: what do I do when one single panel refers to multiple genes. E.g. panel B displays the expression of 3 different genes

Let's go one step further:

Picture object 1 is our PARENTAL IMAGE, we will display it only when the user will click on a “see original figure” link. Picture Objects 2 and 3 are our Daughter Images, which will be displayed on the gene expression page. See mock page below for a visual example:


PictureD1.png

Picture Data Model Proposal

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

?Picture      Description ?Text
              Name ?Text
              Source ?Text
              Image_lineage Crop_picture ?Picture XREF Cropped_from
                            Cropped_from ?Picture XREF Crop_picture
              Pick_me_to_call Text Text
              Expr_pattern ?Expr_pattern XREF Picture
              RNAi ?RNAi XREF Picture
              Variation ?Variation XREF Picture
              Transgene ?Transgene XREF Picture
              Reference ? XREF Picture
              Remark ?Text #Evidence
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Picture Data Model step by step explanation

Description

Figure legend

Name

Name of the picture object e.g. WBPicture0000000001

Source

For actual picture names. This is the name of the path leading to the picture file. The source includes the name of the directory where the picture comes from AND the name of the picture file. e.g. WBPaper00024505_journal.pbio.0020352.g006

Image Lineage

This is the picture object lineage. Large figures will be cropped into sections when they represent different data. We want to maintain the picture lineage -> by clicking on the "see original figure button" we want to access the entire image.

Pick_me_to_call

It is probably an XACE command to call the image. We leave it there for now and ask to the web team if it is necessary

Expr_pattern

RNAi

Variation

Transgene

Reference

Paper