NCI Office of Data Sharing (ODS) Data Jamboree (Abstract Submissions): Submission #36

Abstract Summary I work as the Design and Outreach Engineer for the UCSC Xena project (xena.ucsc.edu), a visualization tool for cancer genomics data. As part of my job, I work with collaborators and researchers to better understand how they use pediatric single cell and spatial data. This helps UCSC Xena to develop more useful visualizations and analyses of this data. I think it is important to put single-cell datasets in the hands of all researchers, especially those without computational expertise. To do this we need easy-to-use online tools that allow researchers to explore both single-cell RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomic datasets. These online tools need to be intuitive to use as well as deliver visualizations and analysis results that enable a deep understanding of tumor biology, driving innovation and discovery in the cancer genomics field. I want to participate in the Jamboree to brainstorm new visualizations of pediatric single cell data and the data resulting from the Jamboree. I also want to better understand how users are working with single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data so that I can design new User Interfaces and User Workflows to help researchers achieve their goals. I hope to use my design skills to create wireframes in Balsamiq (​​https://balsamiq.com/) that would enable researchers to explore Jamboree results. These wireframes could then be implemented by developers on the Jamboree team, or if there is not enough time, the wireframes themselves could be an output of the collaboration. I also have extensive experience developing educational and tutorial materials and would be interested in applying them to create a Jamboree output. I hope to develop collaborations that help UCSC Xena to become a more useful tool and continue after the Jamboree has concluded.

Please note that I do not have travel funds to attend. I will require travel funds to attend.