WBConfCall 2023.07.06-Agenda and Minutes

HelpDesk

Outstanding issues:

• New widget/section on how to cite WormBase
• Issue with ASNS-1 (started at Hixton, then bounced to CalTech)
• Landing page for papers that have not been uploaded yet

New staff member - WormBase ParaSite

Steph Brown joined the WBPS team last week. She's based in Matt Berriman's group in Glasgow!

WBPS AWS EC instance for Web Apollo is down

Slack discussion: https://wormbase.slack.com/archives/C6GJ97BL2/p1688463613605809 WB WebApollo set-up documentation: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/seqdb/confluence/display/WORMBASE/WormBase+Apollo+Instances

Brief JBrowse update

Lots of docs added to the blog: https://blog.wormbase.org/tags/jbrowse2/

On staging:

• Added links to the Alliance for all N2 genes
  • In JBrowse 1, a click on a gene now pops up a dialog offering to got to either AGR or WB
  • in JBrowse 2, a click on a gene brings up the details frame that has links to AGR, WB and JBrowse 1
• Added the CRISPR tracks from JB1 to JB2
• Example JBrowse 2 view: https://staging.d2jjb0xowet5mr.amplifyapp.com/?session=share-sGGM_%2FEuD%2F&password=1E6tU

Scott can roll these changes out to production with a minimum of fuss.

Worm23 - comments, plans, conclusions

eg. see https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/9268