Agenda

1. wormbase.com now available on domain marketplace

Outstanding Help Desk Issues

https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/5790
- Request for information on how to submit expression data (Daniela replied) and alternatively spliced transcripts. Could someone reply to her about how to submit alternative splicing data?
https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/5755
- User asked about documentation on genome browser features, in particular about why some TF BS ChIP-Seq peaks are highlighted in orange and others are not. Do we have documentation describing the tracks, e.g. modENCODE tracks?

User wants to provide alternative splicing data
User asking about TF binding site peak calls in modENCODE tracks in GBrowse; Scott will communicate with Gary W. and get back to user

Should WormBase provide authoritative info about modENCODE data? Something to consider

Comes out once a year
Downside: we need to pay for it each time
Raymond's proposal: each of three WB sites contributes a portion of the paper, each with a point person/representative; three representatives coordinate writing the paper and act as first authors?
Todd, Paul K.: maybe better to stick to a single lead author to have consistent voice
Raymond: each site knows the new features and issues to bring up; could try as an experiment
Lincoln: Worth experimenting, but should state deadlines early on in case the experiment doesn't work
Raymond asking for first draft submissions by August 15th (paper submission deadline ~September 15th)
Hinxton will discuss (who will be lead for Hinxton writing) with Kevin when he is back; OICR will discuss internally and get back to Raymond

Paul S: people should consider what they're working on and write up page including current progress (numbers) and where we want to go in the future
Will need to propose how we will integrate with AGR
Drafts due in one week (unless on vacation, then 2 weeks)

Sibyl working on new search (sent email)
http://dev.wormbase.org:9004
Asking for people to test their favorite data types
Purpose is to remove ACEDB-dependency
Using Elastic Search as backend; slightly more maintenance than Xapian, but probably worth it
People can provide feedback to Sibyl