WebWise: Guide to the University of Washington Genome Center Web Site
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894 USA
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This installment of the WebWise series reviews the University of Washington Genome Center (UWGC) web site. Please note that the web address reported in the first WebWise installment (Pruitt 1997) calls up an internal page; the home page address ishttp://www.genome.washington.edu/UWGC/. As with all of the WebWise reviews, you may find it useful to point your Browser window to the UWGC Home page while reading. Redundant links, and those not related to the Human Genome Project, are omitted from the site map (Fig. 1). The main features of this web site, as well as the features of those sites already reviewed, are indicated in Table 1.
Site map for the UWGC. The main links to pages discussed in the text are illustrated here. Links above the Home Page are to general informational resources; the links located below the Home Page are to the data and additional tools. Some links available on the web site are not indicated here.
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Features of the UWGC Web Site
General Information
The UWGC web site, although smaller than some of the other Genome Center web sites, presents an aesthetically pleasing and well-organized Home page. The navigation toolbar located at the top of each page offers links to some general information pages, software tool descriptions, and a site map. Contact information, including mailing address, phone number, fax number, and an e-mail address is provided at the bottom of each page. In addition, a Feedback form, reached through the toolbar link, provides a convenient mechanism to send in comments. The links to the map and sequence data, organized by project, are provided in the body of the page.
By following the General Information links, one is brought to a page containing three links: About the Genome Center, Events and Seminars, and Job Opportunities. The content behind …
