WBConfCall 2017.03.16-Agenda and Minutes

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? Not currently clear
• We could possibly look for corporate support

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

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