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To ensure that your Arabidopsis gene information is accessible here are some helpful pre-publication guidelines for authors. These guidelines here are written to be somewhat specific for Arabidopsis genes, but are based on a general set of guidelines. 

Include AGI Locus Identifiers for genes

To ensure that the genes described in your paper are unambiguously identified, include the systematic locus identifier for that locus. If you have identified a new gene that does not yet have a an AGI locus ID, please contact TAIR curators PRIOR to publishing your gene. TAIR and other resources use text mining to associate publications to biological entities in databases (e.g. genes and proteins). In the absence of a unique indentifier such as an AGI locus code or UniProt ID, text mining software cannot distinguish between XXX and XXX. To ensure that your published data can be curated and accurately linked to a database record, use the AGI locus ID.

Do not 're use' gene symbols

To avoid the problem of different genes being referred to by the same symbolic name, before you publish check to see if the name is in use. Check the gene symbol registry at TAIR, and search PubMed, ePubMed, Google Scholar to see if that symbolic name is in use for another Arabidopsis gene.

Follow gene, protein and allele nomenclature standards

There is an established nomenclature for genes, proteins and alleles for Arabidopsis thaliana. For example, alleles are lowercase and distinguished by a dash and number (abc2-1, abc2-2). Check to see if your allele already has a name.

Naming and re-naming T-DNA insertion lines

There is a difference between a stock/germplasm and the specific T-DNA insertion that is causal for a phenotype. Therefore when referencing an allele please include the specific polymorphism and not just the name of the ABRC stock because many ABRC T-DNA stocks contain multiple insertions. At TAIR, we will update the allele name with the newly published name. If you have an allele/polymorphism/phenotype that does not already exist in TAIR, please send us the information.

References:

Wilkinson, M., et al., (2016) The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data managment and stewardship. Scientific Data. DOI:10.1038/sdata.2016.18

Reiser, L., et al., (2018) FAIR: A Call to Make Published Data More Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Molecular Plant.

DOI:10.1016/j.molp.2018.07.005


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