WormBase-Caltech Weekly Calls June 2013

June 6, 2013

IWM Posters

• Looking into cost of fabric printing: one vendor offers 44" x 44" fabric poster printing for $139; will check other vendors
• Template sent around to staff@wormbase.org

Data Upload Scheme

• Coordinate model changes that affect OA dumpers (with Juancarlos) well in advance of model freeze and upload deadline
• Model freeze on Friday, testing until Tuesday, upload all tested data by 10am Tuesday for Citace build
• Next freeze, Friday July 12th, upload for citace Tuesday July 16th, Wen submits Citace to Hinxton on Friday July 19th
• Maybe we can develop a more explicit pipeline for testing all model changes before upload
  • CVS repository (or elsewhere?) there can be a list/summary of all classes that are affected by any new model changes

Process OA

• Need to update dumper for Historical_gene

WormMine

• Good if curators can run through the "Take a Tour" tutorial
• For the IWM, we can request:
  • Changes to interface appearance and field/attribute titles
  • New attributes of existing classes, but not entirely new classes
• We will request another tutorial from JD

June 13, 2013

OA Drop Down menus

• Juancarlos and Karen were discussing creation of a form to allow curators to update/edit drop down lists
• Many curators are fine with leaving drop down options hard coded into the OA
• The drop-down field and the auto-complete field could be merged into a single field type, allowing both behavior
• Existing drop down menu lists need to be formatted into an OBO file and updated accordingly
• Curators need to be careful about deleting terms or changing names of terms (particularly if there are associated annotations)

New curator responsibilities?

• Transgenes, Phenotypes
• Expression pattern sequences
• Gold-standard enhancers/binding sites/regulatory regions

Standing/ergonomic desks

• Can look at options
• Free-standing desks
• Adjustable height
• Desk top monitor lifters?

Poster printing

• Fabric printing comparable in cost to paper
• UCLA printing center accepts Powerpoint files
• ~$127 for a 44" x 44" poster (on fabric)
• Will ask about ironing after folding (to remove creases) and quality checking procedure

Slight modification to Curation Status Form

• Slight change to code to change how papers are flagged for conflicts
• Changes documented on the Curation Status Form Wiki

June 20, 2013

New Spica machine

• IP address: 131.215.52.206
• Seems to be running smoothly
• Testing welcomed

Poster printing

• We will submit posters to Caltech Graphics department this afternoon
• Collect comments and polish off posters this morning
• Submit PowerPoint files and JPEGs

Nobel Lectures

• Trying to get access to Nobel lectures

Unit Tests being put in place

• Web team working on setting up unit testing to catch database problems before they make it on the web