Zach Wright
University of Michigan
8 Papers
152 Citations
Zach Wright is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Usability engineering. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 8 publications. Previous affiliations of Zach Wright include University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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Papers
Michigan molecular interactions r2: from interacting proteins to pathways
V. Glenn Tarcea,Terry E. Weymouth,Alexander S. Ade,Aaron V. Bookvich,Jing Gao,Vasudeva Mahavisno,Zach Wright,Adriane Chapman,Magesh Jayapandian,Arzucan Özgür,Yuanyuan Tian,James D. Cavalcoli,Barbara Mirel,Jignesh M. Patel,Dragomir R. Radev,Brian D. Athey,David J. States,H. V. Jagadish +17 more
TL;DR: New functionality includes extension from proteins to genes and to pathways; identification of highlighted sentences in source publications; seamless two-way linkage with Cytoscape; query facilities based on MeSH/GO terms and other concepts; approximate graph matching to find relevant pathways; support for querying in bulk; and a user focus-group driven interface design.
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Metab2MeSH: annotating compounds with medical subject headings
Maureen A. Sartor,Alexander S. Ade,Zach Wright,David J. States,Gilbert S. Omenn,Brian D. Athey,Alla Karnovsky +6 more
TL;DR: The tool Metab2MeSH uses a statistical approach to reliably and automatically annotate compounds with concepts defined in Medical Subject Headings, and the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary for biomedical concepts to provide links from compounds to biomedical literature.
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•Proceedings Article
An experimental simulation of multi-site software development
N. Sadat Shami,Nathan Bos,Zach Wright,Susannah Hoch,Kam Yung Kuan,Judy Olson,Gary M. Olson +6 more
- 04 Oct 2004
TL;DR: It is found that simulated workers at the same sites formed strong in-groups and were able to enlist help from their collocated colleagues at a much higher rate than from remote colleagues, which may help overcome the challenges of global software development and inform the design of future collaboration technologies.
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Heuristic Evaluations of Bioinformatics Tools: A Development Case
Barbara Mirel,Zach Wright +1 more
- 14 Jul 2009
TL;DR: It is shown that incorporating heuristic evaluations and user models into the larger organizational practice led to increased awareness of usability across disciplines and resulted in improved usability.
•Proceedings Article
Challenges in presenting high dimensional data to aid in triage in the DARPA virtual soldier project.
Andrew D. Boyd,Zach Wright,Alexander S. Ade,Fred L. Bookstein,J. C. Ogden,Walter Meixner,Brian D. Athey,Tim Morris +7 more
- 01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: One of the goals of the DARPA Virtual Soldier Project is to aid the field medic in the triage of a casualty by using physiological models and Kalman filtering to aid in diagnosis and predict outcomes in relation to cardiac injury.
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