For those who missed it, or would like to review - the slides from our Apollo webinar on August 29th are available on our presentations page, or here: Slides (pdf)

We've been working to improve our data submission process, and now support the SHA512 checksum for ensuring data integrity. We have also added the ability to directly upload your files at the time of submission. See our dataset submission overview for a summary of the dataset submission process.

The assembly NIJG01 of the orchid bee Euglossa dilemma and associated annotations are now available at the i5k Workspace.

Organism page: https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/euglossa-dilemma
Jbrowse/Apollo: https://apollo.nal.usda.gov/eugdil/jbrowse/

Thank you to our newest data providers!
 

Dear all,

We will hold a webinar on August 29th, 2017, at 1 pm MDT, on the Apollo manual annotation software.

The webinar will last an hour and will cover:

• Background on the principles of manual annotation;
• A live annotation example on the organism Eurytemora affinis.  

This webinar will be hosted using the AT&T Connect software.  Please use the link below to join the conference.  If you have not used AT&T Connect before, please download the application and try to connect a few minutes before the start time.

We will be holding a webinar on Friday July 14 at 1pm Eastern to introduce users to the resources available at the i5k Workspace@NAL.  The webinar will last an hour and will cover:

• An introduction to the i5k Workspace project and website
• Methods to search for data and tutorials on our website
• How to join an annotation project
• A primer on our tools: BLAST, Clustal, HMMER, JBrowse and Apollo
• Pulling it all together with example workflows

Assembly Lm_v2.2 of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria, is now available at the i5k Workspace:

Organism page: https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/locusta-migratoria
Jbrowse/Apollo: https://apollo.nal.usda.gov/locmig/jbrowse

Thank you to our newest data providers!
 

Our colleagues Ricky Punzalan, Morgan Daniels, Katie Gucer, and Adam Kriesberg at University of Maryland have developed a survey on data practices of agricultural researchers. If you consider yourself an agricultural researcher, please consider participating in this survey! See details below.

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There are several new organisms available at the i5k Workspace:

The burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides.
Organism page: https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/nicrophorus-vespilloides
Jbrowse/Apollo: https://apollo.nal.usda.gov/nicves/jbrowse