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Welcome to Myxopedia. MyxoPedia is an online, community driven encyclopedia for information about 'anything Myxo'. Registered community members are welcome to add and edit articles on any aspect of Myxococcus xanthus here. Myxopedia faciliates M.xanthus and other myxobacterial researchers to contribute directly towards the ongoing genome annotation.

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[edit] NEWS

Update August 11 2008 The gene page has been expanded to include some new information.

July 29: WikiMods.org is up! XanthusBase.org has been replaced with xanthus.wikimods.org. "Sister" databases will be lanched soon, the first of which is expected to be xeno.wikimods.org for the prokaryote Xenorhabdus nematophila. The xeno MOD will be lanched as soon a official genome sequence is decided upon by the xeno community.

There are allot of changes made in the migration from xanthusbase.org to wikimods.org. If you have questions, comments or suggestion for the new system we would love to hear them. Email these to mxbase@googlegroups.com.

[edit] Simple User Guide - Myxopedia

1. Searching: Enter you query in the search text box and click the 'Search' button. Note: You may also myxoPedia via the standard 'Search XanthusBase' search box or using the xanthusBase search form. Using this method matches to your query can be located in myxoPedia and the other components of xanthusBase simualtenously.

2. Creating new articles: Check for the availability of the title by entering it in the myxopedia search box and clicking the "Go" button (not the Search button). If a page with that title does previously exist, myxoPedia will provide a link to create a new page for the article.

3. Uploading videos and images: First create the article to host the image or video; see (1). Next, click on the 'Articles list' link from the navigation box (located under the myxoPedia logo). Click 'upload file'. Click the browse button and loctate the file to be uploaded from your machine. Finally, click 'save file' to upload and link the video or image to the myxoPedia article.

== DETAILED GUIDE TO USING THE WIKI ==

Consult the User's Guide for information on using wiki software. Note however that since myxoPedia is a customized wiki not all information found in this guide may be relavent to myxoPedia. This guide is recommended for advanced users.