2016 Advisory Board Meeting

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The 2016 edition of the WormBase Scientific Advisory Board meeting will take place at Caltech on 4/5 Feb 2016.

Logistics

Attending

  • Hinxton
    • Paul Kersey, Matt Berriman, Kevin Howe, Bruce Bolt, Jane Lomax, Michael Paulini, Paul Davis, Gary Williams
  • OICR
    • Lincoln Stein, Todd Harris, Sibyl Gao, Adam Wright, Paulo Nuin

Travel

  • Hinxton
    • Will fly out on the 2nd of Feb, and return on Sun 7th Feb (cheap flights)
  • OICR
    • Arrive 3rd Feb, depart 6th Feb
  • Remote workers
    • Mary Ann - arrive 2nd Feb (evening), leave 7th Feb (evening)

Advisors


Discussion topics

Organisation of SAB talks

Propose organising the agenda into the following cross-site themes:

  • Curation
    • Current status
      • Gene function / literature curation - CALTECH
      • Genome (annotation) curation (gene structures etc) - HINXTON
    • Scaling up literature curation - CALTECH
      • Increased use of automation (text mining, automated concise descriptions)
      • Community curation status and Micropublications
  • User experience
    • Overview of entry points to WormBase data
      • Main web-site + FTP site (incl. usage) - OICR
      • ParaSite - HINXTON
      • Access to WormBase data via other resources (INSDC, Ensembl, UCSC assembly hub) - HINXTON
    • Visualisation of complex data - CALTECH
      • WoBr, SoBr
    • Data mining - OICR
      • WormMine, ParaSite BioMart
    • Plans for new tools - ?
      • e.g. enrichment tool, RNASeq querying
    • Documentation and outreach strategy - OICR
  • Infrastructure and interoperability
    • Overview of current data management infrastructure - OICR / HINXTON
      • Acedb, Ensembl, Postgres, Intermine, BioMart
    • Database migration : progress and status - OICR / HINXTON
      • Clear summary of project goals
      • Progress to date
      • Roadmap for next 6-12 months
    • Interoperability with other MODs - OICR
      • InterMod project

Specific topics for project meeting / working groups

  • Cross-site communication
    • Unification of documentation and code; what are our standards for documentation? For code?
  • Database migration
    • Specific plans for the next 6-12 months
  • WormBase + WBParaSite integration
  • Textpresso for parasites
  • Enrichment tool

Agenda (preliminary)

Wed 3rd Feb

  • 1400 : Project meeting (part one)

Thu 4th Feb

(tentative)

  • 0900-1200 : Curation : status and plans
  • 1300-1530 : User experience
  • 1600-1730 : Infrastructure (incl database migration)

Fri 5th Feb

  • 0800-0900 : Advisors breakfast
  • 0900-1130 : Advisors report back to whole group
  • 1400-whenever : Project meeting (part two)