WBConfCall 2018.12.06-Agenda and Minutes

Agenda

Help Desk unresolved issues

• User wanting to download genome assembly as well as RNA-Seq and miRNA-Seq data sets
  • https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/6747
• User looking to download all expression patterns associated with neurons:
  • https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/6775

Help Desk email list

• Cecilia needs to be added to help@wormbase.org email list

2019 International C. elegans Meeting

• website: http://conferences.genetics-gsa.org/celegans/2019/index
• June 20-24, 2019
• Important Dates:

January 8 --- Workshop Applications due
February 6 -- Abstract Submission Site opens
February 14 - Meeting Registration Site opens
March 28 ---- Abstract Submission Deadline
March 28 ---- Travel Award Application Deadline
April 30 ---- Early Registration Deadline
May 15 ------ Housing Reservation Deadline

• Does WormBase want to have a workshop?
  • http://conferences.genetics-gsa.org/Celegans/2019/workshops
  • Who wants to take lead on this?

Minutes

Help Desk

• GitHub ticket 6747 - Wen will respond
• GitHub ticket 6775 - Raymond will respond

Workshop

• Ranjana will take lead
• Want to cover tools, SimpleMine, WormMine, BioMart
• Superficial coverage and/or specific use cases? Let users ask specific questions?
• Can run help desk at poster sessions? Bring projector or monitor and laptop? Quite noisy
  • Probably no separate rooms, could we setup a section in the seats? May be difficult to get power, traffic
  • Setup a screen on the score board? ;p
• Run two workshops? One for overview, another for feedback? Last time, we did same content twice