Project meeting agendas and minutes

January 2010 Advisory Board Meeting, Caltech

Advisors Attending: Tim Schedl, Mark Blaxter, Bill Gelbart, Mike Cherry, Robin Gasser Special Guests: Makedonka Mitreva

Monday, January 11 (Broad Ctr rm200 [1]

0900 - 0915 Introduction and Charge to Advisors --Paul Sternberg

0915 - 1015 Website Todd, Norie

• Usage
• Staffing
• Project management metrics & help desk enhancements
• OICR migration
• Frozen releases
• Redesign preview

1030 - 1130 Sequence curation including all those genomes

                   Sequence Curation in C. elegans and curation tools- Paul Davis
                   Sequence Curation Tier II - Phil
                   RNAseq (RGASP) - Gary

1130 - 1200 General Discussion

1200 - 1300 Lunch

1300 - 1400 Literature curation

                  first pass automation -- Kimberly
                  SVM approach to first pass at WormBase and FlyBase -- Ruihua
                  author input GSA/ automating linking --Arun
                  Phenotype curation and ontology -- Jolene, Gary
                  Strains, alleles, sequence features etc Anthony for Mary Ann
                  Overview and status -- Karen

1400 - 1425 Cell pages -- Raymond

• Cell anatomy function curation
• Cell lineage information
• Cell neural connectivity
• Cell link in/out
• lineaging and gene expression

1435 - 1445 Process pages -- Karen
1445 - 1500 Nematode.net -- Makedonka

1500 - 1600 Large-scale datasets -

• microarrays & SPELL - Wen
• modENCODE and GBrowse2 - Lincoln
• other data -- Paul, Anthony

1600 - 1645 Database issues (Anthony)

* Brief build overview
  - Data aggregation 
  - Mapping and cross reference creation
  - Similarity searches / orthology / synteny etc (mh to expand) : ensembl based stuff
  - Tier II builds (basically the same)
  - Tier III builds
  - Web database builds

1645 - 1700 Static pages and downloads - Wen

1700 - 1800 Overall Prioritization --Paul Sternberg

1800 Cocktails and Dinner, The Athenaeum

Tuesday January 12

0800 - 0900 Advisor's Breakfast, the Athenaeum

0900 - 1200 Report and discussion with Advisors

    Not sure where to put this, but don't want to forget to bring this up.
    How should WormBase handle meeting abstracts (other than the International meeting)?
    What meetings/abstracts should be included in WB?
    Should WormBase provide a submission form for topical and regional meetings to facilitate handling abstracts?

'Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday Project Meeting' Gene Pages

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