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* [http://www.genome.gov/27545578 Peter Good]
 
* [http://www.genome.gov/27545578 Peter Good]
 
* Brian Brunk
 
* Brian Brunk
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* [http://maizelsgroup.biology.ed.ac.uk Rick Maizels] (arrives after lunch on Monday 6th)
  
 
===Dates and Location===
 
===Dates and Location===

Revision as of 08:28, 30 September 2014

Logistics

Advisors

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
    • 18:00(ish) - dinner (could order pizza to campus?)
  • Monday 5th 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 WormBase ParaSite (Kevin Howe)
      • 10.10 Caenorhabditis sequence curation (Gary Williams)
      • 10.25 Nematode ncRNA annotation (Paul Davis)
      • 10.35 Parasitic nematode gene model curation - Michael Paulini
      • 10.45 Curation of regulatory sequence features in C.elegans _ Mary ann Tuli
    • 11:00 BREAK
    • 11:15 Database migration project
      • 11.15 Introduction and motivation - Kevin Howe / Todd Harris
      • 11.30 Technology investigation: progress report - Thomas Down
      • 11.45 An overview of EuPathDB infrastructure and production informatics - Brian Brunk
      • 12.00 CANTO - Val Wood
      • 12.10 Discussion
    • 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
      • 15.05 GO curation and modeling - Kimberly van Auken
      • 15.15 Worm models of human disease - Ranjana Kishore
    • 15.30 BREAK
    • Literature curation and nomeclature (continued)
      • 16.00 Gene expression - Wen Chen
      • 16.10 Ontology browser and use - Raymond Lee
      • 16.20 Nomenclature update - Mary Ann Tuli
    • 16.30 Spare slot
    • 19:00 Dinner at Hinxton Red Lion
  • Tuesday 7th October
    • 09.00 Advisors meet
    • 10.00 Advisors report back / further discussion