Difference between revisions of "WBConfCall 2017.03.16-Agenda and Minutes"

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* Paul S. asking about what we know about business use of WormBase
 
* Paul S. asking about what we know about business use of WormBase
 
* Todd: some corporate users, not a huge number; probably tend to pull one big data dump into their own LIMS, and then we don't get web usage stats
 
* Todd: some corporate users, not a huge number; probably tend to pull one big data dump into their own LIMS, and then we don't get web usage stats
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* Are there any trends of swinging from academia/public research towards private/corporate research?
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=== Funding from other countries ===
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* All WB funding comes, currently, from two countries (US, UK), yet we have 50+ labs in China that are major users of the resource

Revision as of 15:43, 16 March 2017

Agenda

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Minutes

Datomic model for external links

  • Adam worked on external links in Datomic
  • Would like to make the Datomic schema more consistent for external links
  • Some links for accession numbers are text fields, others point to the accession class
  • Hinxton will work on simplifying the model

Methods in Molecular Biology chapter

  • Chris and Mary Ann asking for section drafts by early next week so we can pull chapter together and make consistent

Company use of WormBase

  • Paul S. asking about what we know about business use of WormBase
  • Todd: some corporate users, not a huge number; probably tend to pull one big data dump into their own LIMS, and then we don't get web usage stats
  • Are there any trends of swinging from academia/public research towards private/corporate research?

Funding from other countries

  • All WB funding comes, currently, from two countries (US, UK), yet we have 50+ labs in China that are major users of the resource