Cross-posting from the i5k pilot mailing list. This symposium is likely of interest to most of our users. The i5k Workspace will participate in the Bioinformatics workshop taking place one day prior to AGS.

A new organism, Medauroidea extradentata (the Vietnamese walking stick) is available at the i5k Workspace.

Organism page: https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/medauroidea-extradentata

Blast: https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/webapp/blast/

Jbrowse: https://apollo.nal.usda.gov/apollo/Medauroidea%20extradentata/jbrowse/

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

Two new organisms, Clitarchus hookeri and Holacanthella duospinosa, are now available at the i5k Workspace.
 
Organism pages:
https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/clitarchus-hookeri
https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/holacanthella-duospinosa
 
Blast:
https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/webapp/blast/
 

We will hold a webinar on Tuesday, February 20th, 2018, at 1 pm MST, soliciting your input on our future development.
 
The i5k Workspace@NAL is writing up a new 5-year project plan. We would like to solicit your input on our future development. In this webinar, we’ll start by reviewing the i5k Workspace@NAL accomplishments in the past 5 years. We’ll then transition into suggestions for where our focus should go in the future. Finally, we’ll have an open discussion session in which you can ask questions, give suggestions as well as critiques.
 

At long last, we've put together guidelines for naming genes and proteins at the i5k Workspace: https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/i5k-workspace-gene-and-protein-naming-guidelines. We invite all of our users, new and seasoned, to review these guidelines. If you have comments, suggestions, critiques, please let us know - we've opened up a comments form at the bottom of the document, or you are welcome to email us with feedback.

Dear users,

We have updated our dataset submission forms to include only one form, instead of the previous 3. We hope this change minimizes confusion when submitting your datasets!

You can find the new form here (login required):

https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/datasets/submit-a-dataset
 

Best,

Monica and the i5k Workspace team

The assembly GCA_002176555.1 of the Southern cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus is now available at the i5k Workspace.

Organism page: https://i5k.nal.usda.gov/rhipicephalus-microplus  
Jbrowse/Apollo: https://apollo.nal.usda.gov/rhimic/jbrowse/

This assembly is open for community curation - however, note that no annotations are currently available.

Thank you to our newest data providers!