2014 Advisory Board Meeting

Logistics

Advisors

• Julie Ahringer
• Mario de Bono
• Nick Brown
• Jonathan Ewbank
• Ralf Sommer
• Val Wood
• Ewan Birney
• Peter Good
• Brian Brunk

Dates and Location

• EBI, Hinxton, UK
• Sunday 5th October PM: Consortium meeting, EBI (advisors not present)
• Monday 6th October: whole-group advisory board meeting (talks and discussion), EBI
• Tuesday 7th October: AM - advisors report back (first to whole group, then to PIs); PM - depart

Arrivals/departures

• Accommodation: all delegates to be housed on Hinxton genome campus. Please contact Kevin with your travel plans once they are confirmed
• SAB arrive Sunday evening, leave Tuesday afternoon
• Staff: arrive Sat evening (or Sunday morning), leave Tuesday afternoon/evening

Talk ideas

• Cross-site themes
  • Database migration
  • Topic curation/pages
  • Human Disease Portal
  • Improved community annotation via a CANTO-like tool
  • WormBase ParaSite

Confirmed talks

• Introduction/Vision/Issues (Paul Sternberg)

• Web-site
  • Introduction (Todd - 20 mins)
  • Development summary (Sibyl/Todd - ?? mins)

• Sequence annotation and production informatics
  • Overview (Kevin - 20 mins)
  • Sequence curation update (including parasitic nematodes) (Paul / Gary / Michael - 15 mins)
  • WormBase ParaSite (Kevin - 15 mins)

• Literature curation and functional annotation
  • Overview (Chris - 20 mins)
  • Ontology browser and use (Raymond - 10 mins)
  • Nomenclature update (Mary Ann - 15 mins)
  • Large-scale gene expression (Wen Chen - 10 mins)

• Database migration and WormBase 3.0 vision
  • Vision statement (Paul Sternberg- ?? mins)
  • An overview of EuthPathDB infrastructure and production informatics (Brian Brunk - 15 mins)

Draft Agenda

• Sunday 5th October
  • PM: consortium meeting

working groups:

  database migration
  phenologs: curating phenotypes/variation for human disease genes, 
  group discussion of website and user experience 

• • Meet for lunch/dinner at local pub!

• Monday 5th October
  • AM: talks (TBD)
  • PM: talks (TBD)

• Tuesday 7th October
  • 8-9.30am: advisors meet over breakfast
  • 9.30am-12pm - advisors report back to whole group and/or PIs
  • PM: depart; for those with later flights, potential for breakout groups