# Welcome to the CLIP Forum The purpose of this wiki is to provide a real-time, community discussion of crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (CLIP)-based studies of protein-RNA interactions and RNA methylation. Both the experimental [(Garzia et al., 2017; Lee and Ule, 2018; Ule et al., 2018; Wheeler et al., 2018)](https://paperpile.com/c/3c2FI2/rPrX+jqZg+DBLj+A8KI) and computational [(Chakrabarti et al., 2018; Chen et al., 2019; De and Gorospe, 2017; Moore and AC’t Hoen, 2019)](https://paperpile.com/c/3c2FI2/2SQ6+Mj9Z+dLnN+YsbD) aspects have been reviewed, and also summarised more recently in the primer on [CLIP and complementary methods](https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-021-00018-1). Our most recent version of improved iCLIP protocol is available from [bioRxiv](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.27.457890v1.full.pdf), and we established [iMaps](https://imaps.goodwright.com/), a free platform for password-protected data analysis, which contains many computational tools tailored to CLIP data. CLIP methods continue evolving and additional questions can arise in specific applications, so this forum serves to enable further discussion and to address the newly emerging questions. **If you would like to ask a question that is not answered already,** please ask your question on our [Slack workspace](https://join.slack.com/t/imapsgroup/shared_invite/zt-r24y3591-Xbhnym2t38u_urU~I0K0lQ) where we have a dedicated channel: #general-questions-for-clip-forum. This forum summarises questions that arose in the past either through e-mail or Slack discussions - most questions are answered by Jernej Ule, but where answers are contributed by others this is usually indicated. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://clipforum.flow.bio/master.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.