WGCNA website

Question

[Dave Carlson]

Does anybody know what happened to the WGCN website?

The url listed on CRAN is the following:

http://horvath.genetics.ucla.edu/html/CoexpressionNetwork/Rpackages/WGCNA/

However it appears to be down:

There was a lot of information and useful tutorials, and it would be a shame if they were lost.

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

ATpoint had discovered this from the developer: https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/questions/21885/where-to-access-the-wgcna-tutorial-documents-horvath-lab-site-down/21886#21886

[Dave Carlson]

Very good to know, thank you!

[GenoMax]

It is unfortunate that an often used academic software website remains down after months. Dr. Horvath is still at UCLA so perhaps someone needs to email him about this.

[ATpoint]

He is at Altos Labs now, this is probably why the UCLA-hosted sites are all down (understandible). What is not understandable is why they have not put this on GitHub a long time ago.

[GenoMax]

Dr. Horvath is still listed on multiple faculty pages so he must still be associated with UCLA. https://bioscience.ucla.edu/people/steve-horvath/ and https://people.healthsciences.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=45544. If Peter Langfelder has moved on to the new job it should be Dr. Horvath's responsibility to keep the website alive since he likely was the senior author for WGCNA.