Frequently Asked Questions

Contact

Contact email: admin@biostars.org

Moderation guidelines

Users posting content that does not belong to the site will be notified and required to edit their content. Users may post commercially motivated posts to the Forum section as long as the topic aligns with the main focus of this site. Users posting obvious spam will be immediately suspended.

User reputation

The number next to a user's name is the sum of upvotes and accepted answers that user has collected.

Becoming a moderator

Active users above a certain reputation threshold are periodically promoted to moderators. You may also explicitly ask for moderation rights or suggest good candidates on the newsgroup. Inactive users that do not visit the site for extended periods of time may lose their moderation rights.

Support for Biostar

Biostar has been developed as an open source software and has been released with the MIT licence thanks to the support from the following institutions:

• The Pennsylvania State University
• National Institutes of Health (NIH), specifially grant NIH 5R25HG006243-02, Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data  principal investigator:  Titus Brown (Michigan State University),