WBConfCall 2020.11.19-Agenda and Minutes

Agenda

• Regrets: Kimberly (GO-CAM workshop this week), Paul D and Magz (annual leave)

WormBase Webinars

• JBrowse Webinar 11/20 10 am PST
• pre-webinar slide show (when people are waiting) & polls (when there is no question during Q&A)
• User Questionnaire

Human Genes in WormBase

• Karen & Ranjana raised the issue. Need Hinxton team's input

Release Coordination

• For information: WS279 Hinxton has fixed most build-time issues, and are working on fixes of post-build issues

Help Desk

• Shih-Peng Chan is looking for her account
• JBrowse high resolution images for Oliver Hobart

Minutes

HelpDesk

• Sibyl will check the account question
• JBrowse2 might support SVG

Webinar

• JBrowse webinar is tomorrow (10am)
• if anyone would like to add to the waiting presentation, please submit them
• the survey is also for tomorrow

Release Coordination

• the reported issues have been fixed and there are new files for WS279
• Valerio is testing if the new files work for the gene description pipeline

Human Genes

• we want to keep the annotation lightweight and refer for disambiguation and history to a.e. AGR
• the id could be added as database-xref to AGR or as reference to a gene stub imported from AGR

Social Time

• good idea
• we will try different times