WebDev 2010.03.31-Agenda and Minutes

Agenda

1. Administration Update (Todd; 5 minutes)

WS212

• Rolling out -- should be done later today.

WormMart / data mining server

• Setting up to do double duty as datamining server.
  
• Will be up with WS213

2. GB2 production status (Todd; 10 minutes)

http://www.wormbase.org/db/gb2/gbrowse/c_elegans/

What's done:

• Reverse proxy
• Updated configuration files
• Reports & Analysis debugging
• Maintenance crons
• New update scripts
• Modified configuration files
• modENCODE tracks

Remaining:

• render slaves on master and slave servers
• backups

3. Gene Page prototype progress (Abby, Xq, Norie; 15 minutes)

http://dev.wormbase.org:8080/reports/gene/WBGene00004921

• using JQuery
• page rendering discussion/description by AC.

4. Define April Milestones (all; 10 minutes)

Proposed Milestones

Expand database connectivity and make it more robust (Xq)

• Failover
• Additional GFF DB support

Finish and polish the prototype page report (all)

• basic/advanced search interface
• multiple hits display
• no hits display
• asynchronous interface prototype. Tabs? Accordion? Selectable?

• search for page that isn't there (LS)
• page suggestions (LS)
• XML (LS)

API for Sequence, Protein, Clone, Variation, Strain (overseen by Norie with help from all)

• draw from Gene.pm experience.
• perform analysis on needed assistance -- will list.

Public demo site (Todd)

• Backups
• Nightly builds

Widget/Page level caching (Todd

To consider:

• maintenance interface
• debugging / logging
• performance metrics
• caching / cloud layer