USER MANUAL

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• To select a strain, highlight a selection from the list in the Strain window. To choose multiple selections or to remove a selection, hold down Ctrl (Command) while making the selection.
  
• To select a property, highlight a selection from the list in the Property window. To choose multiple selections or to remove a selection, hold down Ctrl (Command) while making the selection.
  

Results are generated below in a table format, and updated as new selections are made.
Choose "New Window" to show the table in a separate window.
Choose "Transpose Table" to transpose values for x- and y- axis.

Search

The Search option allows for searches of five properties and three variable. Click on the plus to expand the selection:

Result are displayed upon submitting request.

Registration and Login

All information entered during Registration is strictly confidential and is used to provide administrators with information to identify what record or changes are submitted, or to contact a user if an additional information is required. Only registered users can contribute or make changes to the database.
To register, you must provide a valid email address so that a login password may be sent to you. A user may also be contacted for research purposes if there are questions regarding a particular submission.
To log in, enter your email address as your username and password that was emailed to you.
If data submissions contain irrelevant or inaccurate data, a user will be warned and allowed to correct the data. In cases of "spamming" the database with irrelevant records or changes, a user's password will be cancelled.

Editing/Adding new strains and properties
or how to use Editor Tool

The Editor Tool addresses the frequent changes in the discovery of new species and changes to a species' properties, and the need to see such changes immediately reflected in the database of species.
When submitting records, all fields should be filled out to the best of a user's knowledge. Once a record has been submitted, it will be included in added to the database. If you need to add a new property, such as a new electron acceptor or donor, or have any other changes that cannot be submitted via the web form, contact physiomapper@bugaco.com.

Links & References

ATV - http://www.genetics.wustl.edu/eddy/atv/
Zmasek C.M. and Eddy S.R. (2001) ATV: display and manipulation of annotated phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics, 17, 383-384

Feature request and bug reports? And for that matter any comments or suggestions...

Please write to us at physiomapper-at-bugaco.com to offer suggestions for improving usability, functionality, and design/layout of PHYSIOMAPPER.

Copyright

Ivica Ceraj, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj and Martin F. Polz. 2004. All right reserved.

Authors

Vanja Klepac-Ceraj (Joint Program MIT/WHOI Ph.D. candidate in Biological Oceanography, .04)
Ivica Ceraj
Dr. Martin F. Polz, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to all colleagues who contribute information on strains and thus help create a database that helps improve our understanding of physiological relationships among various organisms.
We would like to thank Modupe Adeleye (MIT, .06) for data entry and programming help.
This work has been partially supported by Howard Hughes Medical Institute Young Scholars Program through professor John R. Jungck (Beloit College) and grants by NSF and DOE-GTL.