Difference between revisions of "2016 Advisory Board Meeting"
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Revision as of 16:40, 6 January 2016
The 2016 edition of the WormBase Scientific Advisory Board meeting will take place at Caltech on 4/5 Feb 2016.
Contents
Logistics
Attending
- Hinxton
- Paul Kersey, Matt Berriman, Kevin Howe, Bruce Bolt, Jane Lomax, Michael Paulini, Paul Davis, Gary Williams
- OICR
- Lincoln Stein, Todd Harris, Sibyl Gao, Adam Wright, Paulo Nuin
Travel
- Hinxton
- Will fly out on the 2nd of Feb, and return on Sun 7th Feb (cheap flights)
- OICR
- Arrive 3rd Feb, depart 6th Feb
- Remote workers
- Mary Ann - arrive 2nd Feb (evening), leave 7th Feb (evening)
Advisors
- Jason Stajich
- Mike Cherry
- Brian Oliver
- Oliver Hobert
- Monte Westerfield (possible)
- Robin Gasser (possible)
Discussion topics
Organisation of SAB talks
Propose organising the agenda into the following cross-site themes:
- Curation
- Current status
- Gene function / literature curation - CALTECH
- Genome (annotation) curation (gene structures etc) - HINXTON
- Scaling up literature curation - CALTECH
- Increased use of automation (text mining, automated concise descriptions)
- Community curation status and Micropublications
- Current status
- User experience
- Overview of entry points to WormBase data
- Main web-site + FTP site (incl. usage) - OICR
- ParaSite - HINXTON
- Access to WormBase data via other resources (INSDC, Ensembl, UCSC assembly hub) - HINXTON
- Visualisation of complex data - CALTECH
- WoBr, SoBr
- Data mining - OICR
- WormMine, ParaSite BioMart
- Plans for new tools - ?
- e.g. enrichment tool, RNASeq querying
- Documentation and outreach strategy - OICR
- Overview of entry points to WormBase data
- Infrastructure and interoperability
- Overview of current data management infrastructure - OICR / HINXTON
- Acedb, Ensembl, Postgres, Intermine, BioMart
- Database migration : progress and status - OICR / HINXTON
- Clear summary of project goals
- Progress to date
- Roadmap for next 6-12 months
- Interoperability with other MODs - OICR
- InterMod project
- Overview of current data management infrastructure - OICR / HINXTON
- General discussion
- Strategies to address threat to NIH funding
Specific topics for project meeting / working groups
- Cross-site communication
- Unification of documentation and code; what are our standards for documentation? For code?
- Database migration
- Specific plans for the next 6-12 months
- WormBase + WBParaSite integration
- Textpresso
- extending use to non-Caenorhabiditis sp
- Enrichment tool
- how to implement for both WormBase central and ParaSite
Agenda (preliminary)
Wed 3rd Feb
- 1400 : Project meeting (part one)
Thu 4th Feb
(tentative)
- 0900-1200 : Curation : status and plans
- 1300-1500 : User experience
- 1530-1630 : Infrastructure (incl database migration)
- 1630-1800 : General discussion
Fri 5th Feb
- 0800-0900 : Advisors breakfast
- 0900-1130 : Advisors report back to whole group
- 1400-whenever : Project meeting (part two)