Agenda

2017 consortium meeting plans

AGR (and potential for an "all hands" meeting in the Summer) has disrupted normal plans
Will there be an Advisory Board Meeting in 2017?
- Before AGR, next one was mooted for Spring (at OICR)
Will there be (near)whole group attendance at the International Worm Meeting?
- If there is insufficient funds due to AGR meeting(s), could we apply for additional funds (where?) as a one-off?
- Flights (for those coming from the UK) are cheaper if booked further in advance (i.e. cost of the trip will be lower if we make a decision soon)
- Alternatively: Could we lobby for AGR all-hands meeting to be immediately before/after IWM, to maximise opportunity to attend?
  - Although: two short(er) trips (vs. one long trip) may be easier/preferable for people with families or other responsibilities

AGR Community meeting will be on March 7th
Lincoln can't make it to the AGR Meeting (March 2nd)- will be at a wedding in India
Advisory Board meeting will be on The Sunday
SAB meeting will help with with grant writing
- Two deadlines May or September (Paul S. prefers the September deadline)
- SAB meeting should be between May and July
- The groups preference is to not have it near the International Worm Meeting
- Need to draft a plan for a community feedback session. The idea is to have it at the end of the meeting on Sunday
- After IWM will have an idea of what people want an will adjust plans based on feedback.

The API architecture working group had its first meeting and has started making decisions. The main decision at this point is to have each individual mode to develop their own tools for converting their data into a specified specification (likely JSON). There will also be an API created that is separate from the one that is provided from ElasticSearch. Went over, as a group, the prototype code for the search interface.
Scoot has a instance running of JBrowse running data from four different mods. The data is being loaded into S3 for AGR JBrowse to access. The intent is for S3 to be used for data submission for JBrowse by each of the mods.
Disease working group working on display . Way to drill down from high level summary to details. from disease association file. Hope to have something by February to give to developers.
Finalize dataspec for data exchange file.

We will be trying out gotomeetings going forward.
- Has been tested out at CalTech
- Only caveat is that there are no 1-800 numbers.