How to maintain a community? ixion.csbc.vcu.edu This demonstration is best viewed as a slide show. To do this, click Slide Show on the top tool bar, then View show. Click to move on to the next slide.

Anyone may make use of CyanoBIKE resources, by employing the blue Visitors Menu at the left. Members of the cyanobacteriological community may log in, enabling them to modify the databases in certain resources. We'll go through a session as a new community member.

ataton Arnaud Taton ******* 1000 W. Cary St. Virginia Richmond U.S.A Center For The Stu Genomic, Annotation of cyanobacterial ge Jeff Elhai Suppose you are Arnaud Taton, a new member of the cyanobacterialogical community. (click to continue)

ataton Arnaud Taton ******* 1000 W. Cary St. Virginia Richmond U.S.A Center For The Stu Genomic Taxonomy Jeff Elhai Annick Wilmotte / L Within a day, you'll be put into the community database and able to log in as a community member (click register)

ataton ******* When you receive notice that the community database has been updated with your name, you can log in.

After logging in, the blue menu at the left allows you to go to various resources of interest to the cyanobacteriological community. Click on CyanoMembers to see the list of others in the community and how to contact them.

Click Directory to see a listing of all participants and their research interests.

Click Find to locate a particular participant.

molecular tools AND ecology Click the Search Type box to see the ways of searching the list of participants. Then click on Interests. Type in the search box the interests you're look. Finally click Search.

One match found. Click on it.

You get contact information plus a list of research interests. (click to continue)

CyanoBIKE as a place for announcements CyanoBIKE also provides a place for members of the community to find news of possible interest to them. Click on CyanoNews. Then try clicking on meeting announcements.

A list of future meetings appears. Click on the ISPP 2006 meeting for more details.

Announcements do not support responses. Participants are free to post new announcements. Click on new topic to see how that works.

Seventh International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria, 2007 Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil 5th - 10th August Seventh International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria You can enter information about an upcoming meeting, including a webpage people can go to for further information. Click the URL button to make the webpage a live link. Click Preview to see how your announcement looks.

If this looks OK (it does), then click the Submit button to post the announcement where the world can see it.

And there it is! Click to continue.

CyanoBIKE as a place for discussions CyanoBIKE facilitates discussions amongst participants by providing forums on topics of their choosing. Click CyanoForums to get to a list of forums. Try the Genomic forums.

Click on any of the forums listed to read posts or add to the discussion yourself. Genomics not your style? Try Ecology.

If you want to start a forum on a topic not on the list, click Temporary Forum. The webmaster will put the forum in the appropriate list. (click to continue)

CyanoBIKE as a Portal to different resources CyanoBIKE connects participants to various resources of interest to the community. One is a list of references related in some way to cyanobacteria. Click on CyanoRefs. This brings you to a page that permits you to conduct quick searches of the cyanobacterial literature. Click on Quick Search.

Suppose you decide to take the default choice, by clicking on author. Then type in the name of one of your favorite authors and press Search. Omata

Links are provided to get to abstracts and in some cases full text. Notice that the search is confined to the cyanobacteriological literature, so the results are not contaminated by the sometimes overwhelming number of references that result from general searches. More complicated searches are also possible.

Click the link to CyanoSite to visit a site that provides images, protocols, and other information related to cyanobacteria.

Click the link to CyanoDB to access taxonomic and phylogenetic information.

Click the Welcome link at any time to get back to a description of the choices.

Click the BioBIKE link to access a powerful interface, permitting biologists without computational expertise to perform simple or complex bioinformatic analyses.

Click the Help to get to a description of the resource and help in getting started (you can access this resource at any time) or start right in by clicking Enter.

If you've been to BioBike before, you're offered a choice of reentering your previous sessions or starting a new session. For now, turn to another resource, CyOrf.

CyOrf facilitates the community annotation of cyanobacterial genomes. Lots to explore here, but time to quit (click to continue).

CyanoBIKE provides a uniform interface for access to a variety of resources of interest to the cyanobacteriologist. Please go to ramsites.net/~biobike for links to descriptions of those resources.