WBConfCall 2023.04.06-Agenda and Minutes

Agenda and Minutes

Help Desk

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IWM Meeting

• Planning for the WB workshop
• Need some separate meetings for this?
• TH: who’s attending? Do we have travel funds available?

New items

• WB needs Genes from nameserver, which is on AWS, so need creds or AMI ?
  • TH
    • I will give a post-mortem of the recent credential leak at the next conference call.
    • The preferred and recommended way to do this would be via an assumed role, not dedicated AWS CLI credentials.
    • I think you mean instance? AMIs are images of instances. IMHO a stand-alone instance is overkill, and already have instances available to run a cron.
  • Juancarlos
    • That's great. I don't know much about AWS. If you're able to set up a cronjob to daily
      • java -cp wb-names-export.jar clojure.main -m wormbase.names.export gene genes.csv
    • And put the output genes.csv somewhere web accessible, I think that's all Caltech would need.
    • I don't know much more about it, other than Matt Russell told me to run that (we went back and forth a bunch of times before it worked).
    • Here's a copy of the .jar file
      • https://tazendra.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/var/work/todd/wb-names-export.jar
  • Thanks, JC! We can make that work from one of our persistent instances. I will look when I return from vacation.