Zhiyuan Song
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MEDICINE portal: engineering for peer review

MEDICINE is a public multi-organ knowledge portal on the Columbia LABS site. My involvement on that track wound down around January 2025. Like the rest of this site’s LABS write-ups, the work below is framed around supporting peer review and lab collaboration—helping reviewers and partners navigate plots, summary statistics, and downloads on controlled paths—not consumer growth marketing.

Scope in one pass: human–computer interaction and information architecture for review workflows, visitor / traffic “map”-style visibility, and a download control layer (security, privacy, availability, access policy). No credentials or private implementation detail here.

Interaction design and portal IA

For peer review and internal QA, the portal needs predictable navigation across organs, traits, and omics modules into result pages (e.g., GWAS summary statistics, QQ / Manhattan blocks). Chrome stays aligned with the main site’s Portals entry and sibling subsites so reviewers moving between portals keep a consistent mental model.

Traffic visibility (“visitor map”)

I helped ship site- and page-level traffic visibility so the team could see how public pages were read—where “map” means charting traffic and page-level attention around review windows. The lab exposes a visitor-stats component; a public example (PI-controlled) is:

https://labs-laboratory.com/component/visitor-stats.html?pageId=%2F

Download control system

I designed and iterated the download & access system: under security and privacy constraints, manage availability and access control for research artifacts (e.g., summary statistics) so review and collaboration happen within agreed boundaries, consistent with what result pages show. Governance details stay with the lab; this page stays high level.

Example public result surface (trait page tied to the same download story): https://labs-laboratory.com/medicine/lv_cardiac_output_f24104_2_0

Live URLs

MEDICINE portal: https://labs-laboratory.com/medicine/

MUTATE (sibling portal; see overview on this site): https://labs-laboratory.com/mutate/

Resume bullets

English

Contributed to the MEDICINE multi-organ portal on the Columbia LABS site—HCI-style navigation and IA for peer-review workflows, visitor/traffic visibility, and a download/access control layer balancing security, privacy, and controlled availability of research outputs—aligned with lab peer-review cadence through ~Jan 2025.

中文要点

MEDICINE 门户、同行评审语境、人体交互系统、访问量地图、下载控制系统、约 2025-01 告一段落。