WBConfCall 2015.12.17-Agenda and Minutes
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Agenda
SAB (4th-5th Feb 2016, Caltech)
- There is a page for the SAB here
- Agenda: add ideas to the SAB page
- Advisors list complete?
- Pre-SAB: practice talks?
- WS253 data upload postponed after SAB
HelpDesk
- No outstanding tickets (a couple of older tickets seem ready to be closed, please close them if you think the issues have been resolved)
- One ticket from the previous conference call
- chromosome map tool (https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/1103). Requires comment from web team
- Next officer Yuling
Happy Holidays
- Next call Jan 7th
Minutes
SAB (4th-5th Feb 2016, Caltech)
please add topics ideas on the SAB Agenda, we should have a 'very rough draft' of what we are going to present by Dec 23rd
- Page for the SAB here
Logistics
- pre-meeting Wednesday Feb 3rd
- everyone will be at Caltech on Wed, final discussions before SAB, will have a round to see each other's slide and get ready for the next day
- SAB meeting will be in two locations
- Keck conference room
- Millikan room
- Thursday we will present and Friday morning the advisors will have breakfast and report back, everything should wrap up around lunch
- post-meeting Friday Feb 5th
- most of the people will leave on Sat/Sun, there will be a post meeting session on Friday Feb 5th
- PIs meeting
- PIs will meet either Wed or Fri afternoon, (to check Lincoln's schedule)
Advisors
- Jason Stajich -> yes
- Mike Cherry -> maybe
- Brian Oliver (flybase advisor) -> yes
- Oliver Hobert -> yes
- Monte Westerfield (ZFIN) -> maybe
- few people will get back soon (e.g. Robin Gasser)
Topics
- Efficiency improvements
- Community curation (allele-phenotype, concise descriptions, etc.)
- Text mining
- Database migration
- SObA (Solr/Amigo/Cytoscape reuse)
- Automated concise descriptions
- Documentation plans (granular (per widget/object/feature) links from website to wiki)
- Micropublications
- Human disease / pathways
- Genomics
- Parasite
Upload for WS253 will be after SAB
HelpDesk
- No outstanding tickets
- chromosome map tool (https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/1103). Requires more time to implement
- Next officer Yuling
Science paper on NHGRI funding
- writer was asking about metrics (how many users, metrics, downstream use of the data)
- emphasis in demonstrating utility
- they have to justify to other people the resources that go to these groups