Specifications for a Community Annotation Form

Description of fields

Since this is for the community, it might be worth having a short one-line instruction for each field (shown in italics here), on top of the box for entering data:

Please see guidelines on how to write a concise description: http://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/How_WormBase_writes_a_concise_description

1. Enter your first name.

Free text box; required

2. Enter your last name

Free text box; required

3. Enter a contact E-mail address

Free text box; required

4. Choose a species.

Autocomplete, Drop-down with predetermined values from the OA, if not found, free text is allowed.

• Caenorhabditis elegans
• Caenorhabditis sp. 3
• Panagrellus redivivus
• Cruznema tripartitum
• Caenorhabditis brenneri
• Caenorhabditis japonica
• Caenorhabditis briggsae
• Caenorhabditis remanei
• Pristionchus pacificus
• Brugia malayi
• Homo sapiens

5. Choose a gene gin_locus gin_synonyms gin_seqname gin_wbgene this is the priority of how genes get autocompleted

J: If what is typed does not match, it stays as free-text

6.Write a concise description for the gene you've chosen.

Concise description: A big box for free-text, similar to the 'Description Text' box in the Concise Description OA.

7. Enter a published paper reference, either a PMID, WBPaper identifier or a DOI. Please note that WormBase will not accept meeting abstracts, Gazette articles or personal communications as references.

Free-text box allowing PMID or DOI.

Also, once PMID is entered, form pulls up Paper information, meaning title etc etc, similar to what P2GO does; Kimberly will talk to JC about it.

Mock-up of form with field titles and guidelines

1. Enter your first name. This field is required.

2. Enter your last name. This field is required.

3. Enter a contact E-mail address. This field is required.

4. Choose a species.

Start typing in a species, the form will autocomplete the text. If you cannot find the species in the drop-down, please enter it manually. This field is required.

5. Choose a gene

Enter a gene name eg. abc-1. Sequence names and WBGene IDs are allowed. If the WormBase gene you begin typing is present in the drop-down, the form will autocomplete the text. If you cannot find the gene in the drop-down, please enter it manually.

6. Write a concise description for the gene you've chosen.

Please see guidelines on writing a concise description: http://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/How_WormBase_writes_a_concise_description

7. Enter a published paper reference, either a PMID, WBPaper identifier, or a DOI.

Please note that WormBase will not accept meeting abstracts, Gazette articles or personal communications as references.