Issues

• Speed up text + non-text public search (rule 5) by filtering facets in Elasticsearch

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#185 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Oct 23, 2026 · 2.0

• Fix workflow to only push to docker hub on merges to master

  bug
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#181 · Filter by author cjmyers opened on Oct 6, 2026 · 1.6
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• Error in SBOLExplorer

  bug
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#180 · Filter by author cjmyers opened on Oct 6, 2026 · 1.6
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• Develop a structured framework for ranking evaluation.

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#179 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 29, 2026 · 2.0

• Online evaluation with real user behavior

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#178 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 28, 2026 · 3.0

• Learning to rank

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#177 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 28, 2026 · 2.0

• PageRank graph is noisy need to be cleaned

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#176 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 28, 2026 · 2.0

• Embedding of text

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#175 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 28, 2026 · 2.0

• implement vector search in ES 9.x

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#174 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 28, 2026 · 2.0

• connect the ES 9.x backend faceted search with frontend

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#173 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 28, 2026 · 2.0
  

• Advanced search drops parts whose roles are all Sequence Ontology terms

  bug
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#170 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 16, 2026 · 1.6
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• Organize related part variants in a sequence similarity tree

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#168 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 14, 2026 · 2.0
  

• Cap the PageRank boost so popularity cannot override a relevance gap larger than N×.

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#167 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Sep 5, 2026 · 1.6
  

• Reliable indexing of private / made-public parts (fixes #158, #159)

  bug
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#163 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Aug 19, 2026 · 1.6
  

• Problem: Public data split across two graph namespaces (http:// vs https://) makes part of the registry unsearchable

  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#162 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Aug 18, 2026
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• Incremental updates seems to not be working reliably

  bug
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#159 · Filter by author cjmyers opened on Jul 20, 2026 · 1.6
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• Use Hash and minHash to replace clustering

  enhancement
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#157 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Jul 1, 2026 · 2.0
  

• NLP attribute extraction from part free-text (organism, spectra, markers, …)

  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#148 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Jun 16, 2026 · 2.0
  

• Faceted Search Frontend

  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#147 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Jun 16, 2026 · 2.0
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• Hybrid semantic retrieval (core novelty)

  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#146 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Jun 16, 2026 · 2.0
  

• Fix Typesense ranking to weight pagerank like ES

  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#145 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Jun 16, 2026 · 2.0
  

• Build the retrieval evaluation harness

  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#144 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Jun 16, 2026 · 2.0
  

• Optimize & benchmark

  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#143 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Jun 16, 2026 · 2.0
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• Optimize the VSEARCH sequence pipeline (async + incremental indexing + benchmark)

  good first issue
  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#142 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Jun 16, 2026 · 2.0
  

• switch to typesense

  SynBioDex/SBOLExplorer#140 · Filter by author cl117 opened on Jun 16, 2026 · 2.0