WBConfCall 2012.10.03-Agenda and Minutes

Agenda items WBConferenceCall 2012-10-04

1. Model changes (Hinxton)

• Couple weeks before sign off
  • Strain model - add Database connection
  • Molecule model - add Paper XREF
• Any more model changes need to be brought up soon
• Potential change for Position Weight Matrix (to include data from Gary Stormo) - Xiaodong

2. Outstanding help desk issues

• Recent e-mail regarding download of brief identification info from Batch Genes (in legacy)
  • Asking about way to do this in new site

• 'Nearby Genes' search tool in legacy (Github issue #507)
  • Asking about way to do this in new site
  • Todd says this won't get ported until WS235 at the earliest
  • Can someone develop a query (AQL?) to address this

3. FlyBase SAB

• FlyBase has some good data query tools
• Incorporating human disease relevance - trying to advertise their efforts to non-fly communities
• Use OrthoDB for orthology calls and relation to human genes

4. Human Disease

• Paul Sternberg will discuss human disease relations to model organisms at GO meeting at Caltech this weekend

5. SPELL for Tier II species

• RNA-seq data is becoming available for Tier II species
• Can users download Tier II species (gene-centric) data from SPELL?
• Hinxton: only C. elegans SPELL-mapping data shows up on FTP server; what about Tier II?
• Raymond: once Gary Williams/Michael Paulini generate Tier II files for mapping, we can incorporate (next upload, WS235?)
• Tier II genes in SPELL could be linked to GBrowse, although no proper gene pages exist