Hinxton 2015.06- Meeting minutes

June 2015

June 16, 2015

In attendance: KH, MP, BB, JL, TD, PD, GW

IWM

• 3posters from Hinxton
  • Gene curation strategies
  • Gene curation toools (Web-Apollo)
  • Parasitic worms in WormBase
• All posters printed (as well as Mary Ann's)
• KH and MP will jointly present in workshop

Communication

• OICR and Caltech record minutes of their weekly meetings on the WormBase wiki.
• We should do the same.

Parasites

• Finished adding support for Track Hubs in WB ParaSite
• Also fixed some bugs in ParaSite mart
• Creating track hubs for RNASeq data in tapeworms
• In communication with Caltech about extending GO curation into the ParaSites
• Talked about adding interface into the Panther TE enrichment to ParaSite and WormBase

Gene Curation

• Preparation of C. briggsae database to re-start curation
• Review of transcript data for S. ratti
• Started looking at Zmap (after looking at WebApollo)
• Fixed some RNASeq meta-data

Database migration

• Started work on Datomic->Ace converter (will allow us to replace components of out database hairball one at a time)
• TD presented at Kersey group meeting

Build / development

• More work on UCSC assembly hub