If you are a scientist willing and able to perform experiments on a gene, you are eligible to register as a "Scientist User" in ModelMatcher. Please register through the Scientist Registry page and confirm your email account to continue. Once you are logged in, you will be prompted to enter some basic information about yourself including your name, affiliation and position under the -Profile- tab. You will be asked to provide information on what type of research you do, and what organ systems you study if applicable. There is also a section where you can briefly describe your research and use PubMed IDs (PMIDs) to link to relevant publications. Once you have completed this, please save the information and you can then start to enter your genes of interest.

Navigate to the -Model Organisms- tab at the top of the profile page in order to register your specific genes of interest. If you do not work in a model organism supported by ModelMatcher, please enter the information under the "Human/other" entry using human gene nomenclature that is orthologous to your gene of interest. Begin typing the model organism gene name according to the official nomenclature in the bar and select the correct gene as it appears in the autofill. You can list as many genes of interest as you like for each model organism. You can also select whether a gene is "Primary or Secondary", and if you would like a "Restricted or Public" privacy setting for a specific gene. Please see the glossary below to learn more about these terms. Save your selections and your registration with ModelMatcher is complete. You can always add or remove genes according to your interest by logging into the Scientist Registry.

After you register your gene of interest, you may receive messages from our Match Dashboard or partner registry users who want to discuss a collaboration with you. These will come as official emails from registry-help@modelmatcher.net and will include information about the user and the gene they are interested in. Here is an example of one such email. Alternatively, for genes that you registered as Public, you may receive direct emails from potential collaborators. If you wish to discuss a collaboration with them, you should simply reach out to the other party through their preferred email address, which will be clearly displayed in the Match Request email. Please note that you can receive a Match Request for genes you have registered as Restricted. In this case, the message was sent to you anonymously without revealing your name or information to the requesting user. If you are not interested in this specific request and wish to remain anonymous, simply do not respond to the request.

If you are a scientist registered with ModelMatcher, but also want to find other scientists with similar interest or complementary skills to collaborate with, you can do so by using the Search feature or by creating a Match Dashboard account. This will allow you to connect with other scientists who share a gene of interest. A different email and a password can be used to register in the Scientist Registry and Match Dashboard but we recommend to keep this the same to avoid any confusion.