Using the ISGW Forum

Interactions with other Workshop participants, faculty, and other people participating on the forum are covered by the Guidelines for positive, inclusive, and responsible conduct.

Quick start

Go to . Browse and read at your leisure.

To make a post or reply to a post, you must create an account. Click the Sign Up button at the top, and create an account.

A bit of Discourse terminology

The uses the software to create an Internet forum.

Categories

Categories are the primary division used to organize discussion topics. On the there are several categories:

  • Site Documentation and Feedback
  • Twin & family modeling
  • Common & rare variant association
  • Downstream analysis with genomic data
  • and more
Image of the front page of the ISGW Forum website

Front page of the forum.

Topics

Topics or threads are messages posted to start a discussion or ask a question.

A list of topics

A list of topics.

Replies

Replies are messages posted in response to a topic. Most interaction with the forum will be through posting replies to existing topics.

Creating an account

The ISGW Forum is open to anybody interested in discussing behavior genetics and related topics. All users of the forum, whether registered participants of the ISGW Workshop or not, must abide by the of the forum and the guidelines for positive, inclusive, and responsible conduct.

  1. To start creating an account, click the Sign Up button on the top of the front page.
  2. This will bring up a dialog box with several options to create an account.
    1. Enter an email address, username, and password to create a new account.
    2. Click one of the buttons on the right to create an account using your Google or Github login.
    3. If you choose to use a Google or Github login, you will have an opportunity to select a unique username for the ISGW Forum.
  3. The username you choose will be what is publicly shown on any messages you post (excluding anonymous postings).
The "Sign Up" button

The Sign Up button.

Choosing the category for a new topic

Under each category on the front page is a brief description of the category. You are most likely to receive useful responses to questions if they are asked in the appropriate category.

Questions and comments about the forum itself should go in the Site Documentation and Feedback category.

Sometimes this is not entirely clear. For example, should a question about OpenMx be placed in the Latent Genetic Modeling category, or in the R category? Pick the category you think is best; a