Wish List
SubtiWiki is all about making a useful tool for the Bacillus community. It is thus very important to receive feedback on what the community needs.
We believe that there are many types of users, with different requirements. For example:
- You could be a molecular biologist wanting to know the sequence of your gene of interest to make a PCR
- You find a reference to a gene in a paper you are reading and are interested to know more about that gene
- You have some hypotheses in mind and want to travel around the wiki, gathering some facts to get inspired
- You have a piece of information that you need almost daily and want to make it available not only to you, but also your group or to the whole community
In all of these cases, you will need different kind of information. The way you want it to be presented would differ too.
The wish list below takes into consideration all the possible users. Please add your wishes on what you would like to see.
Contents
Essential facts (what every gene page should have)
- Gene name
- Function
- Synonyms
- Summary (for not self-explanatory functions)
- DNA and protein sequence
- Essential?
- Genetic context
- References
Facts that would be nice to have
About the gene
- Coordinates
About the protein
- catalyzed reaction (for enzymes)
- Kinetics
- protein family
- structure (or should it just be linked to the database?)
- domains
- Modifications
- Effectors of protein activity
- Interactions
- Localization
- MW
- pI
About the expression of the protein
- Operon
- Sigma Factor
- Regulation
- Inducers
- Repressors
- Regulatory mechanism
About available biological materials
- Mutants
- Expression vectors
- lacZ fusions
- GFP fusions
- Antibodies
== About the conservation of the gene
Other stuff
- Groups working on the gene
Databases that should be linked to the page
- PDB (Protein Data Bank) - Structures
- Uniprot
- KEGG
- SubtiList (?)
