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==Steps in the Curation Process==

==Summary:==

#To become a curator, contact ccga@cancergenomics.org to request access to the CCGA site.  You will also be connected with an Associate Editor.

#Choose or be assigned a few GENE pages to curate.

#Read this tutorial and curate the page by reviewing appropriate related literature and authoring content on the GENE page (DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!)

 

#Contact the Associate Editor for questions and upon completion of GENE page curation.

#After you have decided to become a curator, contact ???, read this tutorial, watch the tutorial and sign your Honor Agreement.

#Contact your editor and gain permission to the CCGA site

#Chose or be assigned a few GENE pages to curate

#Curate the page by reading suggested reading materials and authoring content on the GENE page (DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!)

#Contact Editor upon completion of GENE page curation.

==Introduction:==

==Introduction:==

Thank you for volunteering to help curate the Compendium of Cancer Genome Aberrations (CCGA)!  Your help will make this resource a valuable tool for users of the CCGA, including researchers, clinicians and others.  This short, written description will help you get started and should serve as a collection of best practices and content style as you curate. Please sign and date and return your “Honor Agreement” before starting your curation, which is available here:  .  (TO DO:  make link to Honor Agreement, downloadable by PDF, if possible).There is also a video that should be very helpful to show you how to curate, and is required before you start to curate.  It can be seen here:

Thank you for volunteering to help curate the Compendium of Cancer Genome Aberrations (CCGA)!  Your help will make this resource a valuable tool for users of the CCGA, including researchers, clinicians and others.  This short, written description will help you get started and should serve as a collection of best practices and content style as you curate.  

 

The basic logic for CCGA pages is that there is basic Gene and Protein (and mutation) molecular biology-type information on the “Gene Pages”, and that there is Disease and clinical-type information type on the “Disease pages”.  The CCGA is especially interested in the curation fusion genes/mutations that arise in disease, esp. in the hematological cancers.  However, the dividing line between "Gene/Protein/Mutation" information and "Disease" information is sometime hard to determine (For example, in the case of describing fusion gene's value in diagnostic or prognostic tests i a specific disease).  Basically, this type of "cross over" Molecular Disease information can be included IN ABBREVIATED form on the GENE pages, and wil be addressed more fully on the DISEASE pages.  These guidelines will help you determine what information goes where.  Please note that you should plan to spend between 4-8 hours in curating the information onto a single gene page, more if you are unfamiliar with the gene.

The logic for CCGA pages is that there is basic Gene and Protein (and mutation) molecular biology-type information on the “Gene Pages”, and that there is Disease and clinical-type information type on “Disease Pages”.  The CCGA is especially interested in the curation fusion of genes/mutations that arise in cancer.  However, the dividing line between "Gene/Protein/Mutation" information and "Disease" information is sometimes hard to determine (For example, in the case of describing fusion gene's value in diagnostic or prognostic tests in a specific disease).  Basically, this type of "cross over" Molecular Disease information can be included IN ABBREVIATED form on the GENE pages and will be addressed more fully on the DISEASE pages.  These guidelines will help you determine what information goes where.  Please note that you should plan to spend between 4-8 hours in curating the information onto a single gene page, and more if you are unfamiliar with the gene.

==Editor:==

==Editor:==