1. Community Interactions: Feedback, Support and Curation Eva Huala The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)

2. TAIR Community 20 % Grad students 20% Postdocs 24% Professors Other researchers Teachers Students

3. Organism of Interest Job Title Who are they?

4. Usage Statistics 2.5 million files per month ~600,000 page views ~25,000 IP addresses asia com net uk eur unkn edu

5. History (1999-2003)

6. TAIR Community Interactions Community feedback Community data submission Community outreach

7. Community Feedback Sources Email to curator@arabidopsis.org User comments on detail pages

8. Community Feedback by email TAIR uses Jitterbug to track user emails Each email is assigned to a curator Questions and replies are archived Regular expression searching is possible Answers are compiled into a FAQ

9. Jitterbug at TAIR

11. Typical User Emails 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

13. Community Feedback Sources Email to curator@arabidopsis.org User comments on detail pages

16. TAIR Community Interactions Community feedback Community data submission Community outreach

17. 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

18. Data Submission Methods Web forms (gene class symbol, person/lab) Excel spreadsheets Emails User-defined formats (large datasets)

19. Gene Class Symbol Registration

21. Other Data Submission

22. Data Submission Page

24. Community Data Sources Large genomics projects Gene Family web pages Individual researchers –detail page comments –emails –excel template data submission

25. TAIR Community Interactions Community feedback Community data submission Community outreach

26. Community Outreach Education and Outreach page Workshops

27. Education and Outreach Page

28. TAIR Workshops 2003-2004 Arabidopsis meeting ASPB Plant Biology Plant and Animal Genome XII

29. 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