Community Interactions: Feedback, Support and Curation Eva Huala The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
TAIR Community 20 % Grad students 20% Postdocs 24% Professors Other researchers Teachers Students
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TAIR Community Interactions Community feedback Community data submission Community outreach
Community Feedback Sources to User comments on detail pages
Community Feedback by TAIR uses Jitterbug to track user s Each is assigned to a curator Questions and replies are archived Regular expression searching is possible Answers are compiled into a FAQ
Jitterbug at TAIR
Typical User s I want data I don’t understand this tool/data Please fix/improve this tool Please update this annotation I can’t find this info Login/registration questions
Community Feedback Sources to User comments on detail pages
TAIR Community Interactions Community feedback Community data submission Community outreach
Community Data Submission Gene Family Gene class symbol Person/Lab info Seed and DNA stock info (through ABRC) Microarray data Gene structure/function Marker data 2010 functional genomics projects
Data Submission Methods Web forms (gene class symbol, person/lab) Excel spreadsheets s User-defined formats (large datasets)
Gene Class Symbol Registration
Other Data Submission
Data Submission Page
Community Data Sources Large genomics projects Gene Family web pages Individual researchers –detail page comments – s –excel template data submission
TAIR Community Interactions Community feedback Community data submission Community outreach
Community Outreach Education and Outreach page Workshops
Education and Outreach Page
TAIR Workshops Arabidopsis meeting ASPB Plant Biology Plant and Animal Genome XII
TAIR Staff Sue Rhee Eva Huala Leonore Reiser Tanya Berardini Suparna Mundodi Peifen Zhang Nick Moseyko Margarita Garcia Brandon Zoeckler Danny Yoo Behzad Mahini Thomas Yan Iris Xu Dan Weems Mary Montoya Neil Miller Jessie Zhang Julie Tacklind