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September 6, 2012

Canopus

• Will become a server (heavy outside access)
• Raymond will take precautions to restore properly; should take a week or less
• Used for:
  • Picture curation
  • Virtual worm web page & FTP

Grant Writing

• Approach & future plans - do we need to discuss and add more to proposal?
• Virtual worm access to data
• Browsing data
  • Browse genes/proteins by class/GO annotation
• Intermine queries
  • Queries can be saved and used again later (available to other users)
  • Results can be stored and displayed on web pages
• Displaying large scale expression (microarray) data (from SPELL)
  • SPELL data currently stored in relational (MySQL?) form
  • We could extend the WormBase web app to interact with SPELL data
  • RESTful-compliant data serving would be best

Migration away from ACEDB?

• Scalability - ACEDB does not scale to genome-scale studies
• We (EBI & OICR) spend a lot of time building ACEDB database
• ACEDB not actually used so much
• Makes more sense to adopt a more central database
• Migration would take place over entire grant cycle
• We should continue extending models as we see fit, in the meantime

Massmails

• Discuss again with Paul about Worm Breeder's Gazette and WormBook.

September 13, 2012

Grant

• Two things to work on:
  • 1) Metrics and quality control
    • Transparent about our coverage (e.g. "We estimate XXX many RNAi experiments and we have ~62% coverage")
      • SVM form vs Curation Status form; numbers for coverage
  • 2) Training and user interaction
    • Screencasts and FAQs list (Chris will write some sentences)
    • User guide status? Currently needs major revamp and new information (old Wiki User Guide is now obsolete)
    • Online chat: has been broken for months; should it only be allowed for logged-in users?