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* We would need an automated way to convert special characters, like degree symbols ° into html unicode \&deg\;
 
* We would need an automated way to convert special characters, like degree symbols ° into html unicode \&deg\;
 
* Juancarlos and Valerio will look into possibly switching from a Perl module to a Python module to handle special characters
 
* Juancarlos and Valerio will look into possibly switching from a Perl module to a Python module to handle special characters
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== April 15, 2021 ==
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=== Special characters in Postgres/OA ===
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* Juancarlos working on/proposing a plan to store UTF-8 characters in Postgres and the OA which would then get converted, at dumping, to HTML entities (e.g. α) for the ACE files
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* There is still a bit of cleanup needed to fix or remove special characters (not necessarily UTF-8) that apparently got munged upon copy/pasting into the OA in the past
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* Note: copy/paste often works fine, but sometimes does not work as expected so manual intervention would be needed (e.g. entering Greek characters by hand in UTF-8 format)

Revision as of 15:49, 15 April 2021

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March


April 1, 2021

Antibodies

  • Alignment of the antibody class to Alliance:
    • Propose to move possible_pseudonym (192) and Other_animal (37) to remarks. Those tags are not currently used for curation.
      • Other animal is sometimes used for older annotations, e.g. authors say that the antibodies were raised both in rats and rabbits. Standard practice would create 2 records, one for the rat antibody and one for the rabbit.
      • Possible pseudonym was used when a curator was not able to unambiguously assign a previous antibody to a record. (we have a Other name -synonym- tag to capture unambiguous ones). When moving to remarks we can keep a controlled vocabulary for easy future parsing, e.g. “possible_pseudonym:”
    • Antigen field: currently separated into Protein, peptide, and other_antigen (e.g.: homogenate of early C.elegans embryos, sperm). Propose to use just one antigen field to capture antigen info.

All changes proposed above were approved by the group

textpress-dev clean up

  • Michael has asked curators to assess what they have on textpresso-dev as it will not be around forever :-(
  • is it okay to transfer data and files we want to keep to tazendra? and then to our own individual machines?
  • Direct access may be possible via Caltech VPN
  • Do we want to move content to AWS? May be complicated; it is still easy and cheap to maintain local file systems/machines

Braun servers

  • 3 servers stored in Braun server room; is there a new contact person for accessing these servers?
  • Mike Miranda replacement just getting settled; Paul will find out who is managing the server room and let Raymond know

Citace upload

  • Next Friday, April 9th, by end of the day
  • Wen will contact Paul Davis for the frozen WS280 models file


April 8, 2021

Braun server outage

  • Raymond fixed; now Spica, wobr and wobr2 are back up

Textpresso API

  • Was down yesterday affecting WormiCloud; Michael has fixed
  • Valerio will learn how to manage the API for the future

Grant opportunities

  • Possibilities to apply for supplements
  • May 15th deadline
  • Druggable genome project
  • Visualization, tools, etc.
  • Automated person descriptions?
  • Automated descriptions for proteins, ion channels, druggable targets, etc.?

New WS280 ONTOLOGY FTP directory

Odd characters in Postgres

  • Daniela and Juancarlos discovered some errors with respect to special characters pasted into the OA
  • Daniela would like to automatically pull in micropublication text (e.g. figure captions) into Postgres
  • We would need an automated way to convert special characters, like degree symbols ° into html unicode \&deg\;
  • Juancarlos and Valerio will look into possibly switching from a Perl module to a Python module to handle special characters


April 15, 2021

Special characters in Postgres/OA

  • Juancarlos working on/proposing a plan to store UTF-8 characters in Postgres and the OA which would then get converted, at dumping, to HTML entities (e.g. α) for the ACE files
  • There is still a bit of cleanup needed to fix or remove special characters (not necessarily UTF-8) that apparently got munged upon copy/pasting into the OA in the past
  • Note: copy/paste often works fine, but sometimes does not work as expected so manual intervention would be needed (e.g. entering Greek characters by hand in UTF-8 format)