WBConfCall 2015.10.01-Agenda and Minutes

Minutes

Summary of Ontology-based Annotations (SObA)

• Caltech (Raymond, Juancarlos, Chris) worked on new phenotype summary view
• Had a round of feedback and review
• Caltech would like to get the new view up and running for the website
• May need to work out Javascript issues (collisions) between main site and auxiliary scripts & dependencies
• Best to use existing libraries, JQuery; will probably only use simple custom-written Javascript
• Code generated at Caltech will be documented and archived on GitHub
• Can consider Cytoscape JS

SAB 2016

• February 4th-5th, 2016, Thursday & Friday
• Who are advisors; any suggestions send to Paul
• What feedback do we want from SAB this year?
• What new tools or features should we be working on? What do other sites have that we don't?
• We should bring data/feedback on community curation form usage
• Would be good to have an assessment/comparison of what all the MODs have and how they perform

Legacy site usage

• Bill Mohler asking about neuron images (from White thesis, Mind of a Worm/Worm Atlas)
  • neurons colored red in images on legacy
• Raymond will work with Daniela to get anatomy-associated images displayed on the website
• Need to find the images
• These cartoons are a nice complement to Virtual Worm images

WS251

• Starts next week
• People should write entries for release notes and send to Hinxton

Gene association files (GAFs)

• GAFs currently need to be processed for downstream use/analysis in the WormBase Ontology Browser, etc.
• Raymond requesting the generation of separately formatted GAFs for different downstream applications
• One issue is qualitative vs. quantitative data (e.g. qualitative expression pattern annotations vs quantitative RNA-Seq analyses)