WBConfCall 2012.10.03-Agenda and Minutes
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Agenda items WBConferenceCall 2012-10-04
Contents
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
- Github issue #512
- '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: currently only C. elegans SPELL-mapping data shows up on FTP server (but we produce data for all tier II and III nematodes); Tier II can be handled like tier I linking to gene pages, what about Tier III
- Raymond: once Gary Williams/Michael Paulini send Tier II files, we can incorporate (next upload, WS235)
- Tier III genes in SPELL could be linked to GBrowse, although no proper gene pages exist