Where to get help

General or specific questions

• Biostars: https://www.biostars.org/
• SeqAnswers: http://seqanswers.com/
• StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/
• Bioinformatics Stack Exchange: https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/
• Join the Plant Genomics Slack group: everyone welcome; for an invitation please email anna.syme@rbg.vic.gov.au

A software problem

• For command line tools, read the user documentation (this may be in the README on the code repository page).
• At the command line, try typing in any of these for information about inputs and options:
  • toolname
  • toolname -h
  • toolname --help
• Some tools have groups on Slack, Gitter or Google that can be very responsive to questions.
• If the code is on GitHub, file an Issue (second tab at the top)

Organisations

• Australasian Systematic Botany Society: http://asbs.org.au/
• Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society: https://www.abacbs.org/