¶ Mission

TE Hub is an open and collaborative platform, providing an entry point and reference site for researchers interested in Transposable Element (TE) diversity, identification, and annotation.

¶ What TE Hub is and is not

TE Hub provides specialist information for the TE research community, with particular focus on databases, tools, and methods supporting identification/annotation. It aims to be as collaborative and community-driven as possible. TE Hub does not intend to replace individual online TE resources. Instead, it collates and links these entities, to lead researchers towards the individual resources that are most useful for the specific research question.

For generic information about Transposable Elements, Wikipedia is a good place to start.

¶ On TE Hub's implementation

Central to TE Hub is its open, supportive and collaborative nature. The TE Hub environment consists of:

1. this Wiki-based website: https://tehub.org;
2. the #te-hub channel on the Slack workspace: https://transposonsworldwide.slack.com; Click here to join
3. our bi-monthly open and virtual meetings (organized on the #te-hub Slack channel);
4. the @hub_te Twitter account, and accompanying hashtag #tehub.

¶ Navigation in the TE Hub wiki

You can find content in the TE Hub wiki in three ways:

• Navigate using the links in the blue bar to the left of the page
• Follow one of the links below that support navigation to primary TE Hub content
• Search for specific terms using the search bar at the top of the page

¶ The TE Hub wiki

Our wiki gives a primer in TE classification, catalogs published and online resources, and provides an overview about current community initiatives.

¶ Classification

• Classification schemes: As TE classification is still a matter of debate, we provide an entry point into at least some TE systematics that have been proposed over the years.

¶ Resources

• Repeat databases
• Software tools for repeat identification, annotation, visualization, and more
• Protocols for repeat analysis
• Conferences and Workshops
• Journals that frequently contain TE-related content
• Books about TEs and repeats

¶ Contributions

• Call for volunteers
• Before contributing content or commenting on pages, please read the Code of Conduct

¶ Citing TE Hub

If you have found the TE Hub platform useful, please cite this community effort in your work:

The TE Hub Consortium, Elliott T., Heitkam T., Hubley R., Quesneville H., Suh A., Wheeler T. (2021): “TE Hub: a community-oriented space for sharing and connecting tools, data, resources, and methods for transposable element annotation”, Mobile DNA 12(16), doi: 10.1186/s13100-021-00244-0.