ACE97 : DISCUSSION ON ACEDB_DOCUMENTATION
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Sam Cartinhour, Dave Matthews and Sylvia Martinelli
discussed the following topics :

help.wrm / whelp : 
           bringing it up to date.

new features in code version 4-5 : 
    their documentation for curators and users and publication
through the public access sites.

types of acedb documentation :
the possibility of separating them into categories
such as 
	Tutorials a) for users
		  b) for curators
        Manuals   a) for users
                  b) for curators
                  c) for programmers
        New features list
        List of documents available and where.

A new features list was drawn up and the items
apportioned to advanced curators to document
(see Advanced curators Features and documentation).

Further discussion is needed on all the topics,
although the updating of whelp/ is probably
the most urgent task. 
help.wrm has not been updated since 1995; the whelp
directory is more upto date but needs further revision
to include documentation from ACE97.

Documentation writers may like to  note that all
docs so far are UNIX oriented. We need to be more generalised
and to separate out database specific topics
from generalised display type topics, especially in whelp/.

In the future, it is  probably sensible that probe.nalusda
becomes the primary site for acedb user and curator documentation
and that places like Sanger Centre (and possibly NCBI) mirror this site.
Dave Matthews could act as coordinator of this.

A generalised whelp obtained with the binary could come
with a set of optional extra organism-specific help files
which could be linked into the standard help by curators.