Hi Stephan,

thanks for the suggestions/feedback. I have logged the below as feature 
request. We'll definitely look into this.

Thanks,
--
Greg Roe
UCSC Genome Browser


On 1/3/11 6:18 AM, Stephan Struckmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> writing an article [1] that stresses the advantages of publicly available 
> annotation data, especially wiki-style approaches, we agree with one of the 
> reviewers, that there is a need to have categories for wiki track entries. 
> Having categories, wiki entries could be marked e. g. as regulation related 
> (TFBS data), as gene related (TSS, ...), or as expression data. Because the 
> list of necessary categories probably will increase in future, maybe even the 
> categories should be open for community changes.
>
>    * So, what I would like to propose is to add a category field to the wiki 
> track. Then, researches could manage the wiki entries, even if their number 
> heavily increases.
>
>    * Additionally, we think, a possibility to extend the list of categories 
> should be given to the community.
>
> We appreciate the availability of wiki tracks in the field of open access 
> research very much, and I love the usability of the UCSC genome browser, so I 
> would be glad to contribute a small piece.
>
> I hope, that you can take account of our proposals,
>
>
>
> Thank you and a Happy new year,
>
> Stephan Struckmann
>
> Universities of Rostock and of Greifswald, Germany
>
>
>
> [1] Fuellen, Struckmann: "Evolution of gene regulation of pluripotency - the 
> case for wiki tracks at genome browsers" (Pubmed 21190561), Biology Direct 
> 2011
>
>
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> Stephan Struckmann
> IBIMA Universitätsklinikum Rostock
> [email protected]
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