biocore / metagenomics_pooling_notebook

Jupyter notebooks to assist with sample processing
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Explore the feasibility of porting notebooks to use Jupyter widgets #34

Open ElDeveloper opened 2 years ago

ElDeveloper commented 2 years ago

Doing so might allow us to make the user experience a bit better. Although I am sure there might be some downsides if the inputs can't be serialized and preserved to know which values were used to generate a particular output.

Some docs on widgets: https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io

This blogpost from zymergen shows an example on how they used Jupyter + widgets to create a UI for dealing with 96-well plates: https://www.zymergen.com/blog/technology/tips-for-developing-user-facing-tools-in-jupyter-notebooks/