International C. elegans Meetings - UCLA
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Contact Information and File Specifications
- Contact Anne Marie Mahoney at the Genetics Society of America. The GSA has worked with us in the past to get International Meetings into WormBase.
- They will send us a parseable file of abstracts in which each abstract is a separate file, named according to its program number.
- Also ask for a participants list, containing names, addresses, email addresses, and institutions, for Cecilia's records.
- Juancarlos can parse the abstracts into mangolassi where we can proofread them before entering them into the editor on tazendra.
File Format
- The International Meeting Abstracts are sent to us in a specific file format, with tag:value attributes that are readily parsed into the paper tables (pap_).
- Each abstract is sent as an individual file, named according to the abstract number, e.g. 826C.txt
- Below is the list of tag names. Authors and Institutions are listed sequentially, with increased numerical values, if needed.
- AbstractNo :
- Title :
- Author 1 :
- Presenting Author :
- Study Group :
- Author 1 Affiliation :
- Institution 1 :
- Body of Abstract :
Parsing Scripts
- First place meeting abstracts in a folder on mangolassi
- For 2015 abstracts: /home/acedb/kimberly/meeting_abstracts/2015_iwm_meeting_abstracts/AbsFiles_2015/AbsFiles
- In the postgres account, meeting abstracts are located in directories, named according to the meeting, here: /home/postgres/work/pgpopulation/pap_papers/abstracts
- There are two scripts that we run for processing the abstracts:
- unaccentHtml.pl - this script converts HTML characters and names to text wherever possible, and converts unaccented characters to accented characters
- æ represented in HTML characters as & # 230 ; (note that these symbols are strung together in the actual code)
- parse.pl - this script parses the abstract information into the correpsonding paper tables
- The parse.pl script has some values that need to be set for each specific meeting:
- year
- identifier prefix (e.g., wm2015)
- The parse.pl script has some values that need to be set for each specific meeting:
- unaccentHtml.pl - this script converts HTML characters and names to text wherever possible, and converts unaccented characters to accented characters
- The previous version of the scripts are here: /home/postgres/work/pgpopulation/pap_papers/abstracts/iwm2013
Proofreading
Things to check for in parsed files:
- Does the abstract number in the identifier match the abstract number in the program?
- Are author names correct, i.e. are there any foreign characters not translated correctly?
- Does the text of the abstract start and stop at the right places?
- Are symbols represented properly, e.g. 3'UTR?
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