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For our project, we aim to target one of the most accessible human bodily fluids: | For our project, we aim to target one of the most accessible human bodily fluids: | ||
* Sweat | * '''Sweat''' | ||
* Sperm | ** Still difficult to use as it is difficult to collect a quantity large enough | ||
* Breast Milk | ** Reliable collection a problem too | ||
* Saliva | * '''Sperm''' | ||
* Blood | ** very socially awkward - many cultural, religious issues associated | ||
* Urine | * '''Breast Milk''' | ||
** Same social issues as above, to a lesser extent maybe | |||
** Limited 'Market': lactating women only | |||
* '''Saliva''' | |||
** Few practical collection problems | |||
** [https://www.23andme.com 23andME] | |||
* '''Blood''' | |||
** Also Practical, although collection a bit harder | |||
** Anyone got a link to a 23andMe-like project? | |||
* '''Urine''' | |||
** Also practical | |||
** Anyone got a link to a 23andMe-like project? | |||
** | |||
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Spectrophotometer design
- Technology
- LED-based
- CCD detector
- diffraction grating
- Calibration
- Computer interface
Spectrometric data format
- XML/RDF based
- Data description:
- Spectral data (sampled)
- time log
- GPS log
- tags
Targeted biological samples
For our project, we aim to target one of the most accessible human bodily fluids:
- Sweat
- Still difficult to use as it is difficult to collect a quantity large enough
- Reliable collection a problem too
- Sperm
- very socially awkward - many cultural, religious issues associated
- Breast Milk
- Same social issues as above, to a lesser extent maybe
- Limited 'Market': lactating women only
- Saliva
- Few practical collection problems
- 23andME
- Blood
- Also Practical, although collection a bit harder
- Anyone got a link to a 23andMe-like project?
- Urine
- Also practical
- Anyone got a link to a 23andMe-like project?
NB: There are also some internal bodily fluids (but they are not practical to use), including
- cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and the spinal cord
- synovial fluid surrounding bone joints
- intracellular fluid is the fluid inside cells
- aqueous humour and vitreous humour the fluids in the eyeball.
A full (and very long) list of the human bodily fluids can be found on Wikipedia
Open Dataset Repository design
- Web2.0 Service-like
- Open API
Data visualisation
- Processing-based
Data Analysis
- Data Analysis will play an important role in the second part of the project , that is the construction of the Web 2.0 Service
- More on our apporach to data analysis can be found on Data Analysis