Service Week Tasks

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The following tasks are done by the curators on a rotating basis:


Contents

Daily

  • Respond to user requests
  • Process colleague forms, make sure associate name submissions are correct. To delete a colleague by number, there is a link on top of the Update Colleague Information page!
  • Moderate the Dicty ListServ


Monday

Load GenBank Records

Description
New GenBank records are imported automatically on a weekly basis. Check the GenBank Loader weekly to see if new records are in the database. See the criteria for reconciling GenBank records with a Gene Prediction.
dictyBase curator
  • Check to see that the GenBank record is aligning with the correct gene.
  • Check all information for accuracy and compatibility with existing information in the database.
  • Click 'Load' and information will be available on production.

New literature

  • Use SQL submit to query the database for new papers
select * from reference where date_created >= to_date('03/19/2007','MM/DD/YYYY') 
and date_created < to_date('03/20/2007','MM/DD/YYYY') 
and ref_source = 'PUBMED' 
order by reference_no
  • Copy new papers in the Literature2010.xls file on cgm1.


New strains

On hold for now [How?]

Friday

dictyNews Newsletter

http://dictybase.org/newsletter/

Send two abstracts or more in any week. If there's no abstract, no newsletter. If there's one abstract, no newsletter in the first week, but send it in the second week no matter if there are additional abstracts. So there is maximum a two week wait (this is usually Petra's task). Send dictyNews in plain text to dicty@listserv.it.northwestern.edu, and add the newsletter to the dictyBase archive.
See example of newsletter dictyNews.v29V3

Curation Statistics

  • Currently done by Pascale anytime between late Friday afternoon to early Monday morning. SQL queries are in the Excel file sent every week.

At any point in the week

Curate Reference Genome genes

curate 5-6 genes Dicty Google Spread sheet for Reference Genome Genes


1st of each Month

Paste New Reference Genome Genes in the Dicty Google Spreadsheet

from Reference Genome Genes Google Spreadsheet




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