Experiment editing in XMDS: dogfooding time

editexperiment1Progress is coming along nicely with the Experiment aspect editor for XMDS, which is essentially the desktop platform playing catchup with mobile and matching the functionality of the Green Lab Notebook (GLN) app. There is now an editor in place for the overall reaction scheme, which allows the components of a multistep reaction to be composed. This is a development milestone because it means that it’s time to switch to using it for data entry to find out what needs to be added or fixed most urgently, rather than implementing essential features that are obviously missing (cf. dogfooding = eating one’s own dogfood, in case anyone is unfamiliar with the term). Continue reading