WBConfCall 2020.10.01-Agenda and Minutes

Agenda

WormBase Webinars

• Current schedule: https://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/Meetings#2020_-_2021_WormBase_Webinars
• Shall we promote all webinars or just the 2020 webinars (so that more 2021 webinars can be added later)?
• Are we going to ask users to register?
• Can we use outreach@wormbase.org as the webinar contact?
• Which Caltech Zoom account to use for the webinar?

Current Production Release on FTP is still WS276

• ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/releases/current-production-release
• Can we update this to WS277 data? Or, if WS278 is coming soon skip to that when we go live?

WS280 Models

• Kimberly/Paul - Species model additions

 > ?Species Evidence #Evidence                // Meta data for why the object was created
 >         References ?Paper     (optional XREF Species_in_paper)
 >         Remark ?Text #Evidence

• SO_term

new tag "Sequence_comparison"

Adding Caltech designated WBIDs to the nameserver

added by Karen

• Michael Paulini found that some Transgene IDs were missing in acedb from db to db
• Caltech assigned IDs include, transgene, construct, molecule, others....
• MP suggests using a centralized nameserver to keep track of ID history (merges, kills etc)
• KY suggests alternative of added history to .ace files in citace upload

Help Desk

• Emails sent to help@wormbase.org did not generate github tickets.

* "phm-2 has been cloned. It is F32B4.4" help desk email from Jonathan Ewbank Sept 30 GitHub ticket #7905

• "eiF3-L and dhs-6 confusion" help desk email from Mary-Anne Felix Sept 29 -- [PD I will look at this]

* "paper link missing to sax-1?" help desk email from Nathalie Pujol Sept 26
** all gene-paper links for that paper have been added to the paper object; responded to Nathalie (Kimberly)