Department of Biology, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois 61625, USA.
Database (Oxford). 2012 Mar 20;2012:bas007. doi: 10.1093/database/bas007. Print 2012.
When funding for Tetrahymena Genome Database (TGD) ended in 2006, no further updates were made to this important community resource and the main database was taken offline in 2008. We have restored and updated this important resource for use by the Tetrahymena research community. We have also retooled the TGD website (now TGD Wiki) to allow members of the community to directly update the information presented for each gene, including gene names, descriptions and Gene Ontology annotations, from a web browser. Maintenance of genome annotations by the authors generating and publishing primary data, rather than dedicated scientific curators, is a viable alternative for the upkeep of genomes, particularly for organisms with smaller research communities. By combining simple, intuitive displays with the powerful search functions made possible by its underlying relational database, TGD Wiki has been designed to maximize participation by bench scientists in the development of their community bioinformatics resource. DATABASE URL: http://ciliate.org.
当 Tetrahymena 基因组数据库（TGD）的资金于 2006 年枯竭时，这个重要的社区资源便再无更新，其主数据库也于 2008 年下线。我们已经恢复并更新了这个重要的资源，以供 Tetrahymena 研究界使用。我们还重新构建了 TGD 网站（现称为 TGD Wiki），以便社区成员能够直接在网络浏览器中更新每个基因的信息，包括基因名称、描述和基因本体论注释。由生成和发布原始数据的作者，而不是专门的科学管理员，来维护基因组注释，是一种可行的方法，尤其适用于研究社区较小的生物体。通过将简单直观的显示与强大的搜索功能相结合，TGD Wiki 旨在最大限度地提高实验科学家在开发其社区生物信息学资源方面的参与度。数据库网址：http://ciliate.org.
