What the SRBR link to EUCLIS offers ALL chronobiologists

Although developed within the framework of the EU programme EUCLOCK, many aspects of this infrastructure are open to all chronobiologists. These modules include ChronoHistory, which uses parts of Clock Museum, Clock Images, and Clock Family Trees; Clock Tools, Clock Genes and Clock References.

ChronoHistory aims to document the development of chronobiology through a collation of digitized materials associated with landmarks in the field. Currently, it forms a special collection in the Clock Museum module, where collections of slideshows, images, user-contributed notes and links to references are stored. This platform enables members of the chronobiology community to add their collections of photographs, videos, essays, references and anecdotes on important landmarks and people in chronobiology history. EUCLIS also gives users the option to restrict the visibility of their respective collections to a select group of colleagues, or to make the collection publicly available. The current version of ChronoHistory features landmarks from the Roenneberg and Merrow article “Timeline: Circadian clocks - the fall and rise of physiology”.

We encourage SRBR members to contribute to this effort through the submission of photographs, texts and/or anecdotes, references and other multimedia files which will be hosted in the EUCLIS framework. Members should register to use the facilities in Clock Museum and related modules, Clock Images and Clock References, to upload, create and organize collections for ChronoHistory, to create slideshows, and to restrict the visibility of their contributions to a selected user group.

To ensure the quality of material within ChronoHistory, the content of contributions for public collections will be curated by the ChronoHistory committee of the SRBR.

To access ChronoHistory, please register with EUCLIS (http://www.bioinfo.mpg.de/euclis/).

Not only are there modules for ChronoHistory - Clock Museum, Clock Images and Clock Family Trees (interactive, and updated from Beth Klerman’s original Family Trees of chronobiologists created for the 2004 SRBR meeting), but also other useful modules for SRBR members as Clock Tools, Clock Genes, Clock References. Clock Family Trees allows chronobiologists to input information on their scientific genealogy, specifically their PhD advisors (chronoparents), their PhD advisees (chronochildren) and related information.

The Clock Genes module is openly available for EUCLIS Registered Users. They may access references and data such as the repository for confirmed and putative genes involved in establishing circadian rhythms in model organisms, Neurospora crassa, Synechococcus, Arabidopsis thaliana, Drosophila melanogaster, Mus musculus, and Homo sapiens.

Clock References offers a repository of bibliographic entries of chronobiologists, particularly Endnote files, and hard-to-access documents such as old manuscripts and PhD theses. Registered users may export selected bibliographic entries to an EndNoteXML file.

Clock Tools is a repository of software tools used in chronobiology for analyzing and simulating experimental data and producing graphs and pictures.