WBConfCall 2022.10.06-Agenda and Minutes

Help desk issues

• https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/8801
  • Response given and ticket closed, but original issue/question not addressed
  • The "Save Table" button does not work as expected; can web team address?
  • Re-name the field "Gene name evidence:" to "Gene name originator:" on gene pages

Agenda/Minutes

• WS287 build starts next week (Monday)
  • Magdalena has started the pre-build; Stavros will take over
  • Only C. elegans
  • Please submit release notes to Stavros (Slack, email, etc.)
• Next year 25th anniversary of the C. elegans genome article
  • Opportunity to write a commentary on the genome sequence anniversary
  • Could it coincide with the 2023 International C. elegans Meeting? Would be nice
  • We could invite thoughts, musings, history on the genome from WormBase user community
• Baghwati Gupta idea to have a weekly seminar series (Zoom, delocalized) for each lab to present
  • Good way to get global updates and a sense of the state of the field
  • Worm Board (if active) or GSA could (help) organize; could expand into other domains
  • Could be an opportunity to make community announcements, e.g. Please cite WormBase, etc.
• Paul joined SGD SAB recently
  • SGD has good Alliance links; including the species hexagons
  • Would be good for SGD to share their API for making links and displaying hexagons, etc.
  • Sharing would help build a generic Alliance connection infrastructure
  • We (WB) can reach out to SGD to see how they're doing it and how the other Alliance MODs could implement