WBConfCall 2023.01.05-Agenda and Minutes

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Agenda and Minutes

Help Desk

https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/8884 "I noticed that the original alleles for egl-1 are listed as 'not curated' however they have been identified molecularly..."
Stavros will take care of it.

WormBase Workshop at IWM 2023

  • Assuming we are still interested in holding a WB workshop I'll put a proposal together and submit it before Jan 17th
  • Topics will include interactive sessions on Overview/updates of WB and Alliance, Community curation efforts--Acknowledge system, other forms?, MicroPublication (?), JBrowse, and any tool updates? anything else?
    • From WormBase to Alliance and back (use case starting with WB, going to Alliance for more details and cross-species comparisons)
    • Ontology-based data searching--GO, disease, expression, phenotype, anatomy
    • Tools--SimpleMine, WormMine
    • Genome browsing--JBrowse
    • Community curation--updates to AcKnowledge system, other forms? There will be a microPub booth so the workshop does not need to go through the AcKnowledge system.

Travel to IWM 2023

  • We are short of budget for everyone to go. We gave up the travel budget for salary.
  • Paul and Todd will look for additional funding to cover travel because this is an important meeting.
  • We will see many researchers who never come to the U.S. IWMs. We should try our best to outreach to everyone we see there. This is a year that we need to do more marketing than before.
  • We should book flights between March and April for the lowest price. The current price from LAX is $1200 per person.
  • We need to book from U.S. companies as it was required by the funding.

How to Transition WormBase Users to the Alliance

  • We cannot shut down WormBase and point users to the Alliance because the latter is not ready
    • Disease data display is not complete in either WormBase or Alliance. There are more data in Alliance than in WormBase
  • Can we embed some Alliance data on WormBase pages to increase the Alliance visits?
    • People can now start to create tickets on what kind of Alliance data to embed on WormBase pages.
    • Alliance does not track visits from API so the embed better go through another route
  • What can Alliance do to help MODs embed data to increase traffic to the Alliance?
    • Generic Web Component may not work since every MOD is different and the alliance code may conflict with the MOD code
    • iframe is old-schooler but easy to handle. It will increase traffic to the original sites. We already use it to display JBrowse.
    • The only problem is that iframe displays from other web pages so it is not easy to change the display on WormBase pages.
    • We can start from orthology, variant, and GO. Orthology displays are similar in all MODs so it is easier to start.
    • Chris will talk to the A-team to make Alliance iframe compatible. He will talk to Todd offline.

Other topics

  • New Assembly of VC2010 will come soon
  • Karen needs a curator to view a micropub with large quantities of gene regulation data. Chris will do it.
  • Caltech will submit data for WS288 on Friday, Jan. 6th.
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