This often leads to collections of paper output from the analysis program that are cut and pasted into the paper lab notebook or else stored separately. This is not the best way for researchers to work. In the Gene Inspector, all laboratory notes are kept in an electronic notebook , which also serves as the site for all the sequence analysis results. There is no artificial separation of analyses and discussion of experimental results . Bookmarks , appendices and aliases provide a convenient way to track different aspects of the same project and navigate within the GI notebook.
Appendices are like appendices in a book and are accessible through a menu item.
Aliases function like aliases in the Macintosh Finder. These enhanced and very natural navigation tools provide the user with a significantly more effective research notebook environment than their current paper notebooks. The GI notebook is designed to serve as more than just a repository for information. Because the GI notebook can be resized and the layout easily changed, the GI notebook can be used directly to generate posters, slides, and other illustrations for seminars and lectures . Thus, only the text you want to see will be shown when making the illustration.