WBConfCall 2020.03.05-Agenda and Minutes

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Agenda & Minutes

Project meeting

  • Hinxton attendance in doubt
    • EMBL Coronavirus guidelines: do not plan any unavoidable travel
  • Could important subsets of the agenda be done virually
  • Paul S: Travel looks like it's going to slow down due to restrictions
    • We should consider how to do the meeting remotely/virtually
    • Maybe we can do a conference call late March or early April
    • Could try one topic per day 2-3 hours each time (early for California, late for UK)
    • Will take some discipline and focus, but we can get it done
    • Taxis can be arranged for travel after public transport hours (still a lot cheaper than trans-Atlantic flights)

WS277 data freeze

  • When will the schema be released?
    • Scheduled for 13th March
    • Upload 3rd April
    • Can be flexible and push back by a week if required.
  • Several Caltech curators may take March 30 - April 3 off due to school break
  • Will WS276 go to FTP site this weekend?
    • There have been some delays, so probably won't be up until next week sometime (definitely up by March 13)

Help Desk

  • The following 3 items are linked and the Gene has been named and a new lab created:
    • Has anyone replied to Padhu Padmanabhan (email Feb 4)? - Yes Paul D. replied on the 4th directing them to the genenames list
    • Asked about indicating Y53C10A.5 as having plasmanylethanolamine delta-1-desaturase (EC 1.14.99.19) activity - Can be closed
    • Has anyone replied to Montserrat Elías regarding naming of same gene, Y53C10A.5? - This name has been agreed by Tim S. and the issue can be closed.
    • Unsure on this:
      • Could this be added as a GO MF (GO:0050207)?
  • CGC bad WB link URL; can this be closed?
    • Kimberly will follow up and then close
  • Maureen Barr's question about protein coding genes with known function; can this be closed?
    • Kimberly will follow up and then close
  • Setting up local instance of JBrowse; can this be closed?
    • Scott hasn't heard back

Rearrangement IDs

Nameserver-to-Caltech info transmission

  • Caltech curators would like quick turn around when requesting names/IDs
  • Currently relies on a nightly cronjob to dump GeneACE to Caltech Postgres database
  • Caltech can create a local CGI to immediately update Postgres/OA with new terms before nightly dump occurs
  • Is there an effective mechanism to make updates to Caltech Postgres/OA as immediately as possible?
    • The Nameservice is available for curators to request IDs so they can immediately continue with curation.
    • Extend the TempVariationObo system to all classes
    • Potential for a queue system so that they get automatically added (Prototype system was added for different purpose but pulled a long time ago).
    • The rest API could be used to request IDs direct from the OA meaning that they would be available immediately without relying on additional services.

Disease info changes in 6 classes

  • I propose making these changes for WS278, gives us more time to revisit/change dumpers, and test the data here at Caltech (Ranjana)
  • If we want to go ahead with the new ?Genotype class, that's separate and I'm fine with that (Ranjana)

Single cell expression tool

  • Eduardo is looking for feedback on his tool to query C. elegans single cell expression
  • Tool is here: http://de.wormcells.com/