Instructions

Adding Current Content

The journal club account

There are two resources for Journal Club members to work with, both under the same google account:
  1. The gmail account, to which journal tables of contents come, and
  2. The sites section, which gives access to edit this website.

Journal Club members should sign in to the journal club account. Then open the gmail inbox at http://www.gmail.com to find tables of contents. 
To add your current content, you will need to edit this site by visiting it at http://sites.google.com/site/ucmcbjc/ in a separate window of your browser.

Contact Prof. David Ardell or other Journal club members to get login credentials if you need them.

Working with google accounts

The best way to add content to this site is for each member to have his or her own google account, and be added as a "collaborator" to this site.

Unfortunately, you cannot be logged into two google accounts with the same browser. Because doing everything in the same browser makes cutting and pasting HTML from the Table of Contents to the website nice and easy, at this time I recommend that you work with the Journal Club account exclusively.

Adding a new page of current content

  1. Navigate to Current Content and select "New Post" to start your entry.
  2. Title your post with the date range you are covering and your name. For example, "Sep. 12, 2008 — Sep. 24 by David Ardell." The dates you should cover are from the Wednesday 4 wks preceding your presentation date to the Tuesday 2 wks preceding your presentation date.
  3. In a separate window of your browser,  open the gmail inbox and find tables of contents in your date range.
  4. Copy the issue section at the top of the email, that should include a link to the specific issue you are covering.
  5. Scan down to find titles that interest you and click on them. Read the abstract as well.  Decide whether the article merits inclusion in current content: 
    • How newsworthy do you judge it to be, based on authors, title, abstract? 
    • Does it seem to be excellent computational biology, or is it experimental but falls within the interests of club members? 
    • Is it likely to be noteworthy? 
    • Does it describe a significant technical advance or advance a new or interesting hypothesis?
    • Do you think to yourself, "Oh, I can't wait to show this to so-and-so" in the club?
  6. If you decide to include the article, copy the article and title link from the table of contents (ToC) email page. If the ToC email also  contains other links for the article, copy those too. Example:

    Content with links

    Comparative genomics of the neglected human malaria parasitePlasmodium vivax p757
    Plasmodium vivax infection contributes significantly to malaria incidence in humans, although the resulting disease is usually milder than that caused by P. falciparum infection. The P. vivax genome, with a comparative analysis to the genomes of other Plasmodium species, is now presented, providing insights into the distinct biologies of this group of parasites.
    Jane M. Carlton et al.
    doi:10.1038/nature07327
    Abstract | Full Text | PDF
    See also: Editor's summary 
  7. Paste the individual articles you include indented relative to the issues they are contained in. Example:

    Issue and Article indentation

    Genetics
    1 September 2008; Vol. 180, No. 1 

    The Rate and Character of Spontaneous Mutation in Thermus thermophilus
    Reena R. Mackwan, Geraldine T. Carver, Grace E. Kissling, John W. Drake, and Dennis W. Grogan
    Genetics 2008;180 17-25
    http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/abstract/180/1/17
  8. Finally, paste in the title, authors, and author affilations in the native font of the journal, directly from the journal website.
  9. Long messages in the GMAIL account are clipped; make sure to see the whole message.
  10. The university does not have full current access to some journals we subscribe to (eg Genetics ), in which case you should decide to include content based only on what you can see.
TIPS: there are basically two or three times that you need to directly edit the HTML (look for the HTML button to the right of the control panel. One is when you are done with one issue and want to move to a new journal. To get back out to the outer indentation, sometimes you need to go to HTML, and put the cursor right before the </div> tag at the end of the page, and type some nonsense. This will help you get back to baseline, you can then drag and paste over what you typed to start the next issue. 

Another trick is to get out of an HTML link or other formatting. You can copy and paste text that has the formatting you want where you want the formatting to occur (as you may know from working with other WYSIWYG editors).
                
Have fun!