Hi everyone. I had a general question about this c...
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Florian Wuennemann
12/05/2023, 1:03 PMHi everyone. I had a general question about this channel name / info. I realized that people who are interested in doing spatial analysis of any kind might not necessarily find / join this channel, since it’s called microscopy. I think it would be really important to have one channel where everyone doing spatial analysis (image processing, downstream analysis, visualization etc) is part of so everyone can discuss in a common place.
I am not sure that a channel called #C051C6071S4 is the first place most people will look. For example if I look for “spatial” in the search bar, I only find #C031QFFTT7G. @Phil Ewels what do you think is the best approach for the growing image analysis community in nf-core?
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Phil Ewels
12/05/2023, 1:50 PMI defer entirely to what that community wants 🙂
Phil Ewels
12/05/2023, 1:50 PMCould add to the topic + description of the channel, that might help it come up in search results
Phil Ewels
12/05/2023, 1:50 PMAlso happy to rename if it there's something more suitable
Phil Ewels
12/05/2023, 1:52 PMNote that we don't have many of these general-topic channels. Only #C051C6071S4, #C047A97B5NZ and #C04CQQRJEP3 that I can think of.. 🤔 Basically the "not-genomics" topics to try to help people feel a little less lost here.
Phil Ewels
12/05/2023, 1:53 PMBut there's no #proteomics channel, no #epigenomics channel and so on. Generally my preference is to funnel people either into the pipeline-specific channels or into the whole-community channels, for better visibility as you say.
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Florian Wuennemann
12/05/2023, 2:25 PMI think adding a description and some keywords into the channel info could already help a lot to let people “discover” this channel when they join and look for relevant channels.