All wikis hosted on biowiki.org are powered by TWiki: an open-source, flexible, powerful, secure, yet simple web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base or any other groupware tool on either an intranet or on the Internet. This is the place to learn about TWiki features, find where to download it, and try it out for yourself...

The official TWikiTM site is http://twiki.org/

• Help on Installed Plugins

• DefaultPlugin: This plugin can be used to specify some simple custom rendering rules. It also renders depreciated *_text_* as bold italic text.
• SpreadSheetPlugin: Add spreadsheet calculation like "$SUM( $ABOVE() )" to tables located in Biowiki topics.
• BatchUploadPlugin: Plugin implementing TWiki:Codev.MultipleAttachmentsAtOnce
• CalendarPlugin: Show a monthly calendar with highlighted events
• CommentPlugin: Allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle.
• DirectedGraphPlugin: Embed directed graphs in TWiki topics
• DirectedGraphWebMapPlugin: Directed Graph of (part of) a web
• EFetchPlugin: This plugin fetches abstracts from Pubmed
• EditTablePlugin: Edit TWiki tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
• ImageGalleryPlugin: Displays image gallery with auto-generated thumbnails from attachments.
• InterSeqPlugin: Link ExternalSite:Name/Start-End text to subsequences on external genome browsers based on aliases defined in the InterSeqs topic
• InterwikiPlugin: Link ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in the InterWikis topic
• LabLogPlugin: This plugin allows the user to do basic blogging on pages
• MathModePlugin: This plugin allows you to include LaTeX formatted math in your TWiki pages.
• RedirectPlugin: This plugin allows one to produce TWiki topics that automatically redirect to other TWiki topics or URLs.
• RenderListPlugin: Render bullet lists in a variety of formats
• SessionPlugin: Stores persistent information (like logon and skin information) in a session on the server identified transparently by ID passed from browser.
• SlideShowPlugin: Create web based presentations based on topics with headings.
• SmiliesPlugin: Render smilies as icons, like  :-) for or  :cool: for
• SpacedWikiWordPlugin: Causes wiki words to be displayed with spaces between capitals.
• TablePlugin: Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
• ThreadedDiscussionPlugin: Support a threaded discussion mode.
• TouchGraphPlugin: Displays the relations between topics of a web in a TouchGraph applet

TWiki Reference Manual

Documentation for webmasters, system administrators, project managers, team leaders, and all other users of the TWiki advanced online collaboration platform.

• All manual sections in one big page:
  • TWiki Documentation (560k)
• Manual sections in separate pages:
  1. TWiki System Requirements
  2. TWiki Installation Guide
  3. Windows Install Cookbook
  4. TWiki Upgrade Guide
  5. TWiki User Authentication
  6. TWiki Access Control
  7. Text Formatting Rules
  8. TWiki Variables
  9. File Attachment
  10. TWiki Forms
  11. TWiki Templates
  12. TWiki Skins
  13. Formatted Search
  14. TWiki MetaData
  15. TWiki Plugins
  16. TWiki::Func Module Documentation
  17. TWiki Site Tools
  18. Managing Topics
  19. Managing Webs
  20. Managing Users
  • Appendices
    • A. TWiki File System
    • B. TWiki CSS
    • C. Encode URLs With UTF8
    • D. TWiki Development Timeline

• ADMINS: In less than an hour, you can read through and customize the User's Guide to reflect the exact feature set enabled on your own TWiki site. See also other enhancement pages:
  • TWiki Admin Cook Book: Some tips that can be applied before installation
  • Instant Enhancements: Simple tips (using just browser, no install needed) and quick (max couple of minutes).
  • Admin Tools: Topics an admin typically needs, all in one page

TWikiSiteTools

• TWiki Site Tools include utilities for navigation and for monitoring TWiki web and site-wide activity.

• TWiki Preferences: Biowiki site-wide preferences
• Installed Plugins: currently available TWiki add-on features
• The SiteMap: A color-coded directory of available webs that can be easily included on any page
• TWiki^TM is a trademark of Peter Thoeny
  • Note: Twiki (with a lower case "w") is a robot character in the Buck Rogers^TM in the 25th Century TV series. TWiki (with an upper case "W") is not affiliated with the Dillie Family Trust, the registered trademark owner of the Buck Rogers name
• TWiki is developed as Free Software under the GNU/GPL
• This site is running TWiki version 02 Sep 2004 $Rev: 1742 $, Plugin API version 1.025
• Get the current version from TWiki.org Downloads