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Instructions for sending an announcement to the Cytoscape community.  You generally want to do this if you have a new plugin to report, want to advertise the Cytoscape retreat or a new Cytoscape release.

Announcements are sent to the [[http://groups.google.com/group/cytoscape-announce|cytoscape-announce Google group]]. This list is moderated by a number of Cytoscape team members. Any message sent to this list, after moderation, will be forwarded to hundreds of Cytoscape users and will automatically appear on the cytoscape.org homepage after a short delay.

 1. Send a message to cytoscape-announce@googlegroups.com. The message should be written concisely.  A good subject is of the form "Announcing ...". The main points of the announcement should be in the first few sentences because only these will be displayed on cytoscape.org.  A good example is:
 {{{
Subject: Announcing PhenotypeGenetics 2.0
}}}

 {{{
This Cytoscape 2.1 plug-in constructs genetic-interaction networks
from large sets of phenotype measurements (continuous or discrete)
from cells with single and pairwise genetic perturbations. Network
derivation is generalized and fully computable. It also implements
network-analysis methods to find local and global interaction patterns
reflecting the effects of gene perturbations on biological processes
and pathways.

Released by: Galitski Lab at the Institute for Systems Biology

Please see:
http://cytoscape.org/plugins2.php
for downloading and tutorial information.

For more details, see publication:

Becky L Drees, Vesteinn Thorsson, Gregory W Carter, Alexander W Rives,
Marisa Z Raymond, Iliana Avila-Campillo, Paul Shannon and Timothy
Galitski (2005). Derivation of genetic networks from quantitative
phenotype data. Genome Biology. 6:R38.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&...

-- 
-iliana
}}}
 1.#2 A message will be sent to all list moderators asking them to approve the message. This might take a little while, depending on how busy the moderators are.
 1. Once the moderator approves, the message will be sent to all list members and will appear on cytoscape.org. The 3 most recent announcements automatically appear on cytoscape.org

=== Notes ===

 * If you are on the core team and want to be a list moderator, just ask. You will receive e-mails when people post to the list with a link allowing you to approve or deny posts.
 * The PHP script homepage on cytoscape.org fetches the latest announcements from the Google group by RSS feed. MagpieRSS is used.