The Core is comprised of two components, Information Dissemination and InformationCoordination. The goal of the former is to disseminate information on technology, scientific findings andmethodologies as rapidly, yet responsibly, as possible. The goal of the latter is to provide hardware andsoftware infrastructure to manage, analyze, and distribute the sequence, expression, and structuralinformation, and information on Cell Migration activities, produced by the Cell Migration Consortium. TheConsortium's web site (www.cellmigration.org) is the major forum for information transfer. It has existed inthree editions. The initial web site announced the Consortium and outlined its organization, objectives,approaches, and activities. It also contained material of interest to the general migration community includingmeeting announcements, an introduction to Cell Migration for the general public, and initial Consortiumaccomplishments. The second edition was launched as the Consortium began to produce significant data,technologies, and other products. The activities section was expanded greatly to include detailed descriptionsof the Consortium activities and approaches for each initiative, descriptions on data release and collaborationpolicies, lists of completed, ongoing and planned activities, contact personnel, and the products of theinitiatives. The latter takes several forms depending on the initiative. For some, it could be a list of publications,software, or protocols. For others, e.g., the proteomics and discovery initiatives, it includes data sets. Finally,there are lists of pertinent, non Consortium generated resources, e.g., an inclusive list of biosensors orphosphorylation specific antibodies for the Biosensor Initiative. All of these data were coordinated and linked tothe Cell Migration Knowledgebase (CMKB, see below). The most recent edition is a result of collaboration withthe Nature Publishing Group (NPG), the goal being to bring our products to the attention of the broadestpossible audience, on the one hand, and to provide a resource for the field as a whole, by presenting not onlyConsortium generated information, but information about cell migration that goes beyond the Consortium.
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