WebDev 2013.06.03-Agenda and Minutes

Administrative notes (TH; 5 minutes)

IWM - next week look through presentations

• • prepare slides and share with comrades

schedule time (Friday meeting?) to review presentations as a group.

Discuss WS238 development status (all; 10 minutes)

• GBrowse work
• finished most issues

Pre-baking site

• faster with data
  • found slow widgets - target for optimization
  • found errors (ncRNAs - sequences, others)

GBrowse - JB

• Kevin looked at all the tracks
  • mostly good except for things Kevin is reporting
  • elegans ESTs -> problem with aggregator?, not sure
  • config he wrote is good - but work wasn't very coordinated
    • Kevin finished work

• automate the test - retrieve gbrowse image files, diff the image (imagemagik)

Define WS238/WS239 objectives (all; 10 minutes)

Bit of a breather before WS239.

• expand test suite - current tests obsolete (JB)
  • also GBrowse testing
• optimization - some ares are more computationally intensive (AC)
  • change our pre-baking strategy to generate slowest first
  • have logs of bugs/times
• improving error handling, reporting
  • make it easier to trap errors - where/why?

• REST api
  • documentation on web
    • needs formatting
  • adopt standards

• Graph databases comparison

Discuss Intermine progress; define critical blocking issues (JD; 10 minutes)

Main blocker: server issues (running out of resources)

• • 2nd server should be up soon
  • many issues are hinging on the new built

Asking curators for descriptions, summary view.

Discuss mobile app (AC; 10 minutes)

• Antonio Marino - GSoC
  • unable to attend today's call due to prior commitments, but will attend future calls

Upcoming milestones (TH; 5 minutes)

Q3

• begin exploration of genome browser options (JB)
• reignite discussion of possible backends for website (AC, JB, TH)
• adopt PM tool for clearer tracking of tasks, milestones and resources (TH)

Q4

• community survey (AC, TH)
• complete cloud migration (TH)
• full launch of intermine with WS240 (JD)