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S is a graduate student in the Biology department at MIT and needs to do biological data processing for her research. She needs to run big computational jobs on the lab’s cluster occasionally. She often notes down the required commands and parameters for a program she needs to run, in EverNote (A free note taking software for macbook users), so that she can copy paste them later. But she often forgets where she has put her notes and also finds it difficult to search and find the location of the input files on the server if she needs to do the same analysis again. When she can’t locate her notes about the required commands, she looks at the help file in the command line but does not find it very helpful since it has a lot of text and she is only interested in finding how to run the program. She feels that, it would be easier for her to do data analysis if she could just fill the boxes with the parameters and select the command to run. She would also want to see examples, caveats and history of her previous selections.

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