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* Might be possible to make Eduardo's single cell analysis tools more sustainable
 
* Might be possible to make Eduardo's single cell analysis tools more sustainable
 
* Could make WormiCloud adapted to Alliance?
 
* Could make WormiCloud adapted to Alliance?
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* Put Noctua on more stable production footing? (GO cannot apply as they are in final year of existing grant)
  
 
=== Student project for Textpresso ===
 
=== Student project for Textpresso ===

Revision as of 17:44, 15 April 2021

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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 from a PDF 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)
  • Would copy/pasting from HTML be better than PDF?
  • For Person curation it would be good to be able to faithfully store and display appropriate foreign characters (e.g. Chinese characters, Danish characters, etc.)
  • Mangolassi script called "get_summary_characters.pl" located here: /home/postgres/work/pgpopulation/grg_generegulation/20200618_summary_characters
    • Juancarlos will modify script to take a data type code as an argument on the command line and return all Postgres tables (and their respective PGIDs) that have special characters, e.g.
      • $ ./get_summary_characters.pl exp
      • $ ./get_summary_characters.pl int
      • $ ./get_summary_characters.pl grg
      • Juancarlos will email everyone once it's ready
  • Action items:
    • Juancarlos will update the "get_summary_characters.pl" script as described above
    • Curators should use the "get_summary_characters.pl" to look for (potentially) bad characters in their OAs/Postgres tables
    • Need to perform bulk (automated) replacement of existing HTML entities into corresponding UTF-8 characters
    • Curators will need to work with Juancarlos for each OA to modify the dumper
    • Juancarlos will write (or append to existing) Postgres/OA dumping scripts to:
      • 1) Convert UTF-8 characters to HTML entities in ACE files
      • 2) Convert special quote and hyphen characters into simple versions that don't need special handling

CeNGEN pictures

  • Model change went in to accommodate images from the CeNGEN project
  • Want gene page images for CeNGEN data; have the specifications for such images been worked out? Maybe not yet
  • Raymond and Daniela will work with data producers to acquire images when ready

Supplement opportunities

  • Money available for software development to "harden" existing software
  • Might be possible to make Eduardo's single cell analysis tools more sustainable
  • Could make WormiCloud adapted to Alliance?
  • Put Noctua on more stable production footing? (GO cannot apply as they are in final year of existing grant)

Student project for Textpresso

  • Create tool to allow user to submit text and return a list of similar papers
  • Use cases:
    • curator wants an alert to find papers similar to what they've curated
    • look for potential reviewers of a paper based on similar text content