WormBase-Caltech Weekly Calls November 2021

November 4 2021

Meeting abstracts
- Continuing to review what we have and standardize bibliographic info before we migrate
- QC checks highlight some older abstracts with little-to-no data - propose to invalidate these so we don't migrate poor quality paper data to the Alliance
- We can always respond to individual requests to add old meeting abstracts if they arise

WS284 upload-Better to upload before the holidays or in Jan 2022
Wen will contact Paul D/Hinxton to find out when the WS284 models will be released

Proposal for upgrading tanzendra/mangolassi computing resources

1. Move them to Chen. (done)
  monitor stability of network

Old hardware and out of support OS (Ubuntu 14.04)

2. Establish a development environment for Dockerizing services (curation OA, other web forms, postgres DB)
  (use Valerio's local server/desktop)

3. Establish a local file server for storage and download access (PDFs, dump files)

4. Run dockerized services from AWS

5. Continuous development and integration locally -> AWS

Daniela contacted ZFIN and FlyBase. ZFIN does curate commercial antibodies only if found in publications. Waiting for FlyBase feedback (Sian out).
TODO: Contact TAIR and see if they including commercial antibodies and if they charge companies (Daniela sent a message on slack). Tanya: We have not charged for placing the links but have strongly encouraged a corporate subscription for the two companies.
This can be an Alliance project. Need to contact companies and see who is interested (need to have a price in mind for that).
Can pilot text mining for commercial antibodies
GeneCards charges for inclusion of commercial reagents on their website: "Companies that wish to provide deep links to their products (e.g. reagents, assays, antibodies, clones, etc) in the Services and other relevant sections of GeneCards, should contact sales@lifemapsc.com." From https://www.genecards.org/Guide/FAQ