Interactive Application Network for Research Workflow Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current research tools are data-centric, disconnected, and scattered, leading to inefficiencies in large-scale research efforts like drug discovery, where researchers' insights and experiences are often lost due to the lack of tools to track and utilize their activity history effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for creating and managing an interactive application network that captures users' insights and experiences by linking interactive containers and applications, allowing visualization and sharing of work history, thereby facilitating collaboration and reducing research time and cost.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If researchers use multiple disconnected data-centric tools to perform research tasks, then they can access diverse data sets and perform specialized analyses, but their insights and experiences are lost and productivity decreases due to the need to manually track and repeat work
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple disconnected research tools and data sources into a single integrated networked environment where research activities, data, and insights are connected. This integration allows researcher insights and experiences to be captured and shared across the network, eliminating the need to manually track and repeat work while maintaining access to diverse data sets and specialized analysis capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the networked research environment with activity tracking and sharing capabilities) that connects researchers to their past work and to each other's insights. This intermediary captures research activities automatically and makes them accessible to others, preventing loss of insights while improving productivity through reduced repetition of work.
2Loss of information
If researchers manually track and document their work history across multiple tools, then they can preserve their insights and experiences, but the time and effort required increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service automation where the research environment automatically captures and documents work history, insights, and experiences without requiring manual intervention from researchers. The system autonomously tracks activities across connected tools and preserves this information in the networked environment, eliminating the time and effort previously spent on manual documentation while ensuring complete preservation of work history.
3Adaptability or versatility
If researchers repeat the same analysis tasks multiple times with different parameters, then they can explore design hypotheses thoroughly, but research time and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables preliminary action by allowing researchers to define analysis workflows and parameters once in the networked environment, where these can be automatically reused and adapted for different hypotheses. The system captures and preserves previous analysis configurations, enabling researchers to quickly replicate and modify analyses rather than starting from scratch each time, thus maintaining versatility in hypothesis exploration while dramatically reducing research time.
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AI summary
A method of creating an interactive application network includes displaying, by a processor, a workspace and a toolbox on a display screen, instantiating, by the processor, a first interaction container to display a first output in response to a first user input, instantiating, by the processor, a second interaction container to display a second output based on the first output, in response to a second user input, the second user input being a user interaction with the first interactive container, and linking, by the processor, the first interactive container with the second interactive container via an interactive link to form the interactive application network.