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Revision as of 16:45, 21 December 2015
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
Travel
- Hinxton
- Will fly out on the 2nd of Feb, and return on Sun 7th Feb (cheap flights)
- OICR
- 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
- "Genetic" curation (i.e. literature)
- "Genomic" curation (gene structures etc)
- Scaling up literature curation
- Increased use of automation (text mining, automated concise descriptions)
- Community curation status and Micropublications
- Current status
- User experience
- Overview of entry points to WormBase
- Documentation and outreach strategy
- Visualisation of complex data
- WoBr, SoBr
- Data mining
- WormMine, ParaSite BioMart
- Plans for new tools
- e.g. enrichment tool, RNASeq querying
- Overview of entry points to WormBase
- Infrastructure and interoperability
- Overview of data management infrastructure
- WormBase and ParaSite
- Database migration : progress and status
- Incl: what is the plan and timeline for incorporating the new database in the build? In curation workflows?
- Interoperability with other MODs
- InterMod project
- Overview of data management infrastructure
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
Agenda (preliminary)
Wed 3rd Feb
- 1400 : Project meeting (part one)
Thu 4th Feb
(tentative)
- 0900-1200 : Curation : status and plans
- 1300-1530 : User experience
- 1600-1730 : Infrastructure (incl database migration)
Fri 5th Feb
- 0800-0900 : Advisors breakfast
- 0900-1130 : Advisors report back to whole group
- 1400-whenever : Project meeting (part two)