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* Raises public consciousness about funding; something to consider | * Raises public consciousness about funding; something to consider | ||
* Would it be good to request an allotment of discretionary funds to be used for supporting WB? | * Would it be good to request an allotment of discretionary funds to be used for supporting WB? | ||
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+ | === IWM 2017 === | ||
+ | * Ranjana set the workshop agenda to organizers | ||
+ | ** Currently we're slated for only one workshop; haven't heard back about having a second workshop | ||
+ | ** We may have to force everything into a single day workshop | ||
+ | * WormBase will have booth, as will Micropublications | ||
+ | * Nemametrix willing to provide swag (mini-book with micropublications) | ||
+ | ** Book will have several types of micropublications (small datasets, negative results, etc.) | ||
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+ | === Micropublication grant === | ||
+ | * Received a good score | ||
+ | * Paul S. writing rebuttal now | ||
+ | * Will have booth at IWM | ||
+ | * Targeting authors who have published papers that refer to "Data not shown" | ||
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+ | === Intermine === | ||
+ | * In WS258 adding gene classes as a class to WormMine | ||
+ | * Fleshing out some classes that already exist, variations etc. | ||
+ | * Not being used much right now | ||
+ | * Have discussed in past powering simple queries in WormBase using WormMine as the backend | ||
+ | * Could possibly build a user-friendly query builder that sits on top of WormMine | ||
+ | * We could have page dedicated to commonly requested data | ||
+ | * There is a new Intermine interface coming out soon | ||
+ | * There may be a new backend as well (running off graph database?) |
Latest revision as of 16:08, 16 March 2017
Contents
Agenda
Placeholder
Minutes
Datomic model for external links
- Adam worked on external links in Datomic
- Would like to make the Datomic schema more consistent for external links
- Some links for accession numbers are text fields, others point to the accession class
- Hinxton will work on simplifying the model
Methods in Molecular Biology chapter
- Chris and Mary Ann asking for section drafts by early next week so we can pull chapter together and make it consistent
Company use of WormBase
- Paul S. asking about what we know about business use of WormBase
- Todd: some corporate users, not a huge number; probably tend to pull one big data dump into their own LIMS, and then we don't get web usage stats
- Are there any trends of swinging from academia/public research towards private/corporate research? Not currently clear
- We could possibly look for corporate/private sector support
- Could setup WormBase as an LLC so that WB can receive donations from companies? Todd could setup in an afternoon
- What about restricting access to commercial users? Possible, but comes with management overhead (fixed cost?)
- Maybe have a pilot project, first reaching out to a few companies, and see what the interest is
- Karen: Nemametrix has been asking about how to donate to WB; we could certainly begin dialog with them
- Caltech pages have donation buttons throughout their site; could we leverage the Caltech system for use for WB donations?
- Caltech may take a (significant?) cut
Funding from other countries
- All WB funding comes, currently, from two countries (US, UK), yet we have 50+ labs in China that are major users of the resource
- Could possibly get more funding/support from overseas/other countries
Pop-ups requesting money
- OMIM started this in the last year
- FlyBase about to start similar approach as well
- Raises public consciousness about funding; something to consider
- Would it be good to request an allotment of discretionary funds to be used for supporting WB?
IWM 2017
- Ranjana set the workshop agenda to organizers
- Currently we're slated for only one workshop; haven't heard back about having a second workshop
- We may have to force everything into a single day workshop
- WormBase will have booth, as will Micropublications
- Nemametrix willing to provide swag (mini-book with micropublications)
- Book will have several types of micropublications (small datasets, negative results, etc.)
Micropublication grant
- Received a good score
- Paul S. writing rebuttal now
- Will have booth at IWM
- Targeting authors who have published papers that refer to "Data not shown"
Intermine
- In WS258 adding gene classes as a class to WormMine
- Fleshing out some classes that already exist, variations etc.
- Not being used much right now
- Have discussed in past powering simple queries in WormBase using WormMine as the backend
- Could possibly build a user-friendly query builder that sits on top of WormMine
- We could have page dedicated to commonly requested data
- There is a new Intermine interface coming out soon
- There may be a new backend as well (running off graph database?)