2014 Advisory Board Meeting
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Logistics
Advisors
- Julie Ahringer (present only after 2pm on Monday 6th)
- Mario de Bono
- Nick Brown
- Jonathan Ewbank
- Ralf Sommer
- Val Wood
- Ewan Birney (present only 11am-2pm on Monday 6th)
- Peter Good
- Brian Brunk
- Rick Maizels
Dates and Location
- EBI, Hinxton, UK
- Sunday 5th October PM: Consortium meeting, EBI (advisors not present)
- Monday 6th October: whole-group advisory board meeting (talks and discussion), EBI
- Tuesday 7th October: AM - advisors report back and discussion
Accommodation
For those staying on campus at the conference centre:
- Booking reference for Rick Maizels: 5714
- Booking reference for everyone else: 4483
- Check in is from 2pm on the day of arrival and check out at 10am on the day of departure. Breakfast is included and is served from 07:30-09:00 on weekdays, 07.00-10.00 at weekends.
- Please contact the conference centre directly on +44 (0) 1223 495000 with questions/changes changes quoting the reference number above.
Agenda
Sunday 5th October
- 13.00 consortium meeting
- working groups:
- database migration
- phenologs: curating phenotypes/variation for better comparability with human disease gene function
- RNAi mapping (review of mapping pipeline and extension to other species)
- group discussion of website and user experience
- working groups:
- 18:00(ish) - dinner
Monday 6th October
- 09.15 Introduction/Vision/Issues - Paul Sternberg
- 09.30 Genome annotation and production informatics
- 09.30 Overview of database production - Kevin Howe
- 09.45 Caenorhabditis sequence curation - Gary Williams
- 10.00 Nematode ncRNA annotation - Paul Davis
- 10.15 Curation of regulatory sequence features in C.elegans - Mary Ann Tuli
- 10.30 Parasitic nematode gene model curation - Michael Paulini
- 10.45 WormBase ParaSite - Kevin Howe
- 11:00 BREAK
- 11:30 Database migration project
- 11.30 Introduction and motivation - Kevin Howe / Todd Harris
- 11.45 Technology investigation: progress report - Thomas Down
- 12.00 An overview of EuPathDB infrastructure and production informatics - Brian Brunk
- 12.30 Lunch
- 14.00 Web-site
- 14:00 Usage, user community, cloud migration, new features - Todd Harris
- 14:45 Curation of gene function
- 14:45 Overview - Chris Grove
- 15.00 Process / Topic curation - Karen Yook
- 15.15 GO curation and modeling - Kimberly van Auken
- 15.30 Worm models of human disease - Ranjana Kishore
- 15.45 BREAK
- 16.15 Curation of gene function (continued)
- 16.15 CANTO - Val Wood
- 16.30 Gene expression - Wen Chen
- 16.45 Ontology browser and use - Raymond Lee
- 17.00 Nomenclature update - Mary Ann Tuli
- 19:00 Dinner at Hinxton Red Lion
Tuesday 7th October
- 09.00 Advisors meet
- 10.00 Advisors report back / further discussion
- 12.30 Lunch / Close