WBConfCall 2017.03.16-Agenda and Minutes
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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 it 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? Not currently clear
- We could possibly look for corporate/private sector support
- Could setup WormBase as an LLC so that WB can receive donations from companies?
- What about restricting access to commercial users? Possible, but comes with management overhead (fixed cost?)
- Maybe have a pilot project, first reaching out to a few companies, and see what the interest is
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
- Could possibly get more funding/support from overseas/other countries
Pop-ups requesting money
- OMIM started this in the last year
- FlyBase about to start similar approach as well
- Raises public consciousness about funding; something to consider
- Would it be good to request an allotment of discretionary funds to be used for supporting WB?