2014 Advisory Board Meeting
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Contents
Logistics
Advisors
- Julie Ahringer (present only after 2pm on Monday 6th)
- Mario de Bono
- Nick Brown
- Jonathan Ewbank
- Ralf Sommer
- Val Wood
- Ewan Birney (present only 11am-2pm on Monday 6th)
- Peter Good
- Brian Brunk
- Rick Maizels (arrives after lunch on Monday 6th)
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.
- 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
estimated times should INCLUDE discussion!!!!!!
- Introduction/Vision/Issues (Paul Sternberg)
- Website
- Usage, user community, cloud migration, new features (Todd; 45 minutes)
- Sequence annotation and production informatics
- Overview (Kevin - 20 mins)
- Sequence curation update (including parasitic nematodes) (Paul / Gary / Michael - 2 x 15 mins)
- Regulatory Sequence Feature Curation (Mary Ann - 10 mins)
- WormBase ParaSite (Kevin - 15 mins)
- Literature curation and functional annotation
- Overview (Chris - 20 mins)
- GO curation and modeling (Kimberly - 15 mins)
- Worm models of human disease (Ranjana - 10 mins)
- Gene expression (Wen Chen - 10 mins)
- Ontology browser and use (Raymond - 10 mins)
- Nomenclature
- update (Mary Ann - 10 mins)
- Database migration and WormBase 3.0 vision
- An overview of EuthPathDB infrastructure and production informatics (Brian Brunk - 15 mins)
- CANTO (Val Wood - 10 mins)
- Discussion about vision for WormBase 3.0 (all)
Draft Agenda
- Sunday 5th October
- PM: consortium meeting
- working groups:
- database migration
- phenologs: curating phenotypes/variation for better comparability with human disease gene function
- RNAi mapping (review of mapping pipeline and extension to other species)
- group discussion of website and user experience
- working groups:
- 18:00(ish) - dinner (could order pizza to campus?)
- PM: consortium meeting
- Monday 6th October
- 09.15 Introduction/Vision/Issues (Paul Sternberg)
- 09.30 Genome annotation and production informatics
- 09.30 Overview of database production (Kevin Howe)
- 09.50 Caenorhabditis sequence curation (Gary Williams)
- 10.05 Nematode ncRNA annotation (Paul Davis)
- 10.15 Curation of regulatory sequence features in C.elegans - Mary Ann Tuli
- 10:30 BREAK
- 11:00 Database migration project
- 11.00 Introduction and motivation - Kevin Howe / Todd Harris
- 11.15 Technology investigation: progress report - Thomas Down
- 11.30 An overview of EuPathDB infrastructure and production informatics - Brian Brunk
- 11.45 CANTO - Val Wood
- 12.00 Discussion/Overflow
- 12.30 Lunch
- 14.00 Web-site
- 14:00 Usage, user community, cloud migration, new features - Todd Harris
- 14:45 Literature curation and nomenclature
- 14:45 Overview - Chris Grove
- 15.00 Process / Topic curation - Karen Yook
- 15.15 GO curation and modeling - Kimberly van Auken
- 15.30 Worm models of human disease - Ranjana Kishore
- 15.45 BREAK
- 16.15 Literature curation and nomenclature (continued)
- 16.15 Gene expression - Wen Chen
- 16.25 Ontology browser and use - Raymond Lee
- 16.35 Nomenclature update - Mary Ann Tuli
- 16.45 Parasitic nematodes
- 16.45 Parasitic nematode gene model curation - Michael Paulini
- 17.00 WormBase ParaSite - Kevin Howe
- 19:00 Dinner at Hinxton Red Lion
- Tuesday 7th October
- 09.00 Advisors meet
- 10.00 Advisors report back / further discussion