WBConfCall 2014.08.07-Agenda and Minutes
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Agenda
Departures
- Abby, August 15th last day. Traditional serenade by the departed, Canadian song of her choosing.
New Starters
- Thomas Down, 1st of August first day. No music will be provided.
SAB 2014 / 5th - 7th October
- Who is the contact person for accommodations in Hinxton or Cambridge?
- which advisers?
- topics?
Human disease portal (Todd)
There is an idea to make the human disease data more accessible and extend the curation. Discussion items:
- Example data already accessible in the acedb database
- I have created test queries and files available here ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub2/wormbase/STAFF/pad/disease_data_test
- Also on the [discussion] tab to this page.
- Curation
- What additional curation is needed, and how does it overlap with the Disease Relevance data that Ranajana has been collecting?
- How should it be captured?
- Approach 1: speadsheet, which is exposed directly on the web-site
- Approach 2: traditional: in Postgres at Caltech, with dataflow into Ace (with new classes/tags)
- Should we import the whole human and mouse canonical gene sets to facilitate this (and other things)?
- Display
- What are the main anticipated use-cases?
- Orthology data in WormMine
- would facilitate some of the necessary queries (e.g. what worm genes have human orthologs)
- work underway to simplify the structure in Ace to make this easier (WS245)