kanaverse / kana

Single cell analysis in the browser
https://kanaverse.org/kana/
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[JOSS] Add description for non-specialist audience #233

Closed yongrenjie closed 1 year ago

yongrenjie commented 1 year ago

(This issue is opened as part of @yongrenjie and @llewelld's review of the Journal of Open Source Software submission, 'Powering single-cell analyses in the browser with WebAssembly'.)


The summary gives a clear idea about the scientific area the tool works in and its particular benefits (those being 'omics and in-browser client-side operation). These are great points that the text is clear on. However, in terms of a clear description for a "diverse, non-specialist audience", we feel a little more detail would be helpful, in particular explaining what some of the consequences (scientific outputs) of using the software might allow, since this helps put the software in a context that's easier for non-specialists to grasp. For example: "This tool allows variations between cells in a population to be studied, in order to understand how biochemical diversity underlies and gives rise to physiological processes".

LTLA commented 1 year ago

Added a few more sentences about what people usually try to get out of single-cell analyses in kanaverse/kana-paper#6.

llewelld commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the additions. These changes look good to me, but I'd defer to @yongrenjie for his opinion on this too.

yongrenjie commented 1 year ago

Looks good!