The SysMO SEEK is the main web-based access point to the system. It allows consortium members to search for any assets across SysMO that they have access rights for. SEEK does not contain data, but instead is an assets catalogue, containing details of who owns what assets and where they can be found.
Assets in SysMO can be data, models, workflows, protocols, SOPs and people. We divide SEEK into the "Yellow Pages" and the "Assets Catalogue"
The Yellow Pages is a directory of who is on which project, where they are located, and what they specialise in. This allows researchers to identify people with similar interests, or to find people with the relevant experience when troubleshooting new techniques.
The Assets Catalogue provides links to data, models, SOPs, workflows and experiment descriptions held at external project sites or held centrally within SEEK. It has a fine-grained access control mechanism to allow scientists to share with the whole consortium, their own projects, or individually selected people. The scientist remains in control of their own assets and can chose to host them centrally or within their own institutions.
An overview of recent developments can be found in our list of Recent changes.