This document lists important questions and answers about using eagle-i. The eagle-i Consortium recommends that you read the entire document before using eagle-i.
If you are logged in to Data Tools and want to Search, you must go to the Search landing page and log in again. Data Tools and Search require separate logins.
Currently you cannot sort results in descending order, only ascending order.
Only published resources are searched. Unpublished resources can only be browsed or edited by their creator and/or assigned data curator.
You can enter the PubMed ID into the search text box and initiate the search. Then select PubMed on the results page to see the PubMed results.
Currently, you can browse only core laboratories or both core and private laboratories.
If you search for a gene id, eagle-i returns any resource that contains the gene Id string. For example, Mutation Type properties are considered part of an Organism. A search using a gene Id string returns an organism that has a mutation with the given gene Id.
Enter information regarding the format that data is kept in the lab, such as Excel file (xls), database, LIMS, and so forth. If there is no information to enter, leave this field empty, rather than writing none.
A new lab’s Resource Description is a summary about the type of research done by the lab or other information representative of the lab. The Resource Description should not replicate all information found on the lab's web site, but instead should provide an overview of the lab.
“Data curation is the active and on-going management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. Data curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain its quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time.” (http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/ms/datacuration)
Add any information that might help the curators curate the record. This might include explanations for missing information in the record, other notes about the annotation process, or explanatory web links. Information entered as comments will NOT be published and is not searchable.
You can add new documents from the Protocol sidebar menu. Click add new, and in the form click the taxonomy browser (book icon) to change the Document Type to publication. Then enter further information about the publication.
The Glossary contains all eagle-i terminology related to the eagle-i data model. If you cannot find a specific term, you can request that it be add it to the Glossary by clicking Submit a Term Request.
JIRA is a web-based issue tracking and project management application. JIRA tracks term requests. You do not need to use JIRA, but you may receive emails regarding the status of JIRA tickets for the terms you requested.
To submit a term request through the Glossary, click the Glossary hyperlink, and then click Submit a Term Request. Select the resource type from the term hierarchy in the sidebar. For example, if your term request is about a new instrument, select Instrument. Type your e-mail address in the From field and type the new term in Comments field. Click Submit, and you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing a JIRA ticket key. The key is in the format, ONT-<number>, such as ONT-999. Return to the page where you were adding the resource and copy ONT-999 into the Term Request field, and save the record.