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= February 7, 2013 =
 
 
 
Person Cytoscape
 
*Person-person network viewing on website
 
*Use person lineages
 
*Will discuss with web team
 
 
 
 
 
WormBook History
 
*Paul editing a person history section, starting with John White
 
*Can use history info to link people
 
 
 
 
 
Binary vs. Non-binary interaction display
 
*Cytoscape and interaction table are only displaying interactions as binary interactions, regardless of number of interactors
 
*We need to assess how many interactions we have that have more than 2 interactors
 
*Once we have assessed that, we should discuss with web team about how to display these cases
 
 
 
 
 
Curation Statistics
 
*Wen can generate numbers for Citace AND the complete build (rather than Hinxton)?
 
*Will let Hinxton build the queries
 
*End-of-build summary for curators (with more database technical numbers) separate from the Release Notes for public (with more biologically interesting numbers)
 
*Will separate Wiki page into two sections to reflect this
 
*Public info will continue to be displayed in Release Notes
 
*Internal info - where should that be displayed?
 
 
 
 
 
Postgres info table (on [[OA_forms,_tables,_scripts,_etc|Wiki page]])
 
*Curators will continue to add info to Wiki on scripts, dependencies, ontologies, etc. for each Ontology Annotator
 
 
 
 
 
Intermine
 
*JD gave short demo yesterday
 
*Will give another tutorial next week (Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 - 8:30am PST)
 
*Curators can/should test
 
 
 
 
 
Nick Brown visit
 
*PI of FlyBase Cambridge
 
*Will be here tomorrow around 11am
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
= February 21, 2013 =
 
 
 
 
 
WS237 Upload March 1, 2013
 
*Citace upload on February 28
 
 
 
 
 
WS236 will go live on April 5, 2013
 
*One week later than previously planned (March 29th)
 
 
 
 
 
New genome assemblies and gene names across species
 
*How do we handle independent, conflicting genome assemblies and gene models?
 
*Can we collect all gene models, for example, without any bias and display any info we have?
 
*How might we display conflicting models, etc.?
 
*Should we prioritize easier-to-handle, "more important" genomes?
 
*Can we establish automated (minimal manual effort) pipeline to handle these issues?
 
 
 
 
 
Expression graphs
 
*Wen and Daniela have been generating expression graphs
 
*Yanai probes need to be mapped
 
*Multiple probes mapped to the same gene will be averaged
 
*SPELL construction has changed; all data sets exist as separate flat files
 
 
 
 
 
Expression table
 
*Table of expression data to display all details of an expression pattern object
 
*Place in separate widgets on the gene page
 
*Perhaps, separate large-scale from small-scale studies
 
 
 
 
 
Phenotype Ontology
 
*How stable/complete is the current phenotype ontology?
 
*Good, but we may consider a reconstruction/re-ordering of existing terms
 
*Group phenotypes by e.g. anatomy term, life stage, etc.?
 
*Link anatomy terms, life stages to relevant phenotypes (at .ACE level or website level)
 
*Perhaps use cross-products of various ontologies to get the same effect?
 
*May want to consider using .OWL format as opposed to .OBO
 
*Need a sustainable, long-term approach to maintaining the ontologies
 
*AMIGO 2 only consumes .OWL format, not .OBO
 
*Should we consider switching to Protege, as a local ontology browser/editor (as opposed to OBO-Edit)?
 
 
 
 
 
LEGO Call
 
*How to use annotation extensions for LEGO model?
 
*Consistent use?
 
 
 
 
 
Intermine
 
*Target for first release, minimal functionality for sequence-based queries
 
*JD working on importing sequence-based data
 
*How much can we get into Intermine by the first freeze/release (in April)?
 
*How should we prioritize?
 
*Can we build a "worm-version" of FlyMine (existing classes, e.g.)?
 
**Probably not a good approach for first release in April, but maybe useful for long-term
 
*Production server (unstable) vs live/testing server (more stable)
 
*Major testing will start in April
 
 
 
 
 
Staging tests
 
*WS236 Staging site now available
 
*Everyone should test rigorously
 
 
 
 
 
[http://www.celegans.org/2013/ 2013 International Worm Meeting]
 
*WormBase workshop
 
*What do we need to consider/prepare for, for the meeting?
 
*Someone should be in touch with organizers?
 
*Who are the organizers?
 
**Monica Colaiacovo and Ralf J. Sommer
 
*WormBase souvenirs?
 
 
 
 
 
Dead genes
 
*Going to add "Historical_gene" tag to relevant class models (e.g. ?Interaction, ?Expr_pattern, ?Transgene, etc.)
 
*Will modify OA dumping scripts with Juancarlos to automate recognition of dead genes and replace them (if merged)
 
*Dumper will add remark about existence of dead gene in original object
 
*Will consider adding original gene reference through #Evidence hash under "Published_as" tag, as Other_name (gene synonym), as possibly as a separate free-text tag in the models that captures the verbatim reference to the original gene
 
*Will not try to re-annotate old objects WRT the gene synonyms/verbatim references, but can consider doing this going forward only
 
 
 
 
 
Transgenes
 
*CGC transgenes have been completed/unified with existing WBTransgene objects
 
*Updating new CGC strains will become a monthly task
 
 
 
 
 
GO task
 
*Can we link two or more genes based on ,e.g., process for enrichment analysis?
 
*What should we be getting out of enrichment analyses that we aren't currently?
 
*Link all genes as part of "FGF signaling", "DAF-2 signaling", "PAR genes", etc.
 
*Gene sets based on pathway, process, etc.
 
*Intermine should be able to filter by these means (eventually)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
= February 28, 2013 =
 
 
 
WS237 Upload
 
*Upload happening today
 
*May be some delay due to script issues (being fixed)
 
*Transgene and Life Stage are all set
 
 
 
 
 
BioCurator meeting coming up
 
*Karen, Kimberly, Michael, and Daniela going
 
*Topics: entity recognition, curation pipelines
 
 
 
 
 
Kimberly attended [http://www.nescent.org/ NESCENT] summit
 
*Meeting: Resource Coordination for NESCENT group, Text mining for annotations
 
*Kimberly spoke about Textpresso
 
*Setting up Textpresso for butterfly?
 
*Amer Soc Plant Bio attended, wanted to know more about Genetics/G3 markup pipeline
 
 
 
 
 
[http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/Caltech2013 Galaxy workshop] next Tuesday, March 5, 2013
 
*Biologists workshop 11am - 2pm, in Braun 151
 
*Lunch provided
 
*Register [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BaJHJT0HmnGe9E_hY21t62rWdb2MyocO1bo-bYMY1a8/viewform here]
 
*Web-based platform for sequence analysis
 
*Protein trees, alignments, RNA-seq data
 
*Run remotely or locally as a server
 
 
 
 
 
Bioinformatics Club
 
*Could start a LinkedIn group (Caltech BioInformatics "huddle" group?)
 
*Main goal: find out who's on campus and what they do
 
*What are most people interested in?
 
*Create forum and wiki page?
 
*Mitch Guttman coming this summer, maybe give intro talk?
 
*Georgi Marinov in Wold lab
 
 
 
 
 
Xiaodong visited two labs in Bejing
 
*Gave WormBase tutorials
 
*Lab is still using legacy site
 
*Said they had trouble finding things on new site
 
*Xiaodong showed SPELL and modENCODE data
 
*WormMart demo and some queries
 
*~30 C. elegans labs in China, and growing?
 
*Xiaodong encouraged them to send questions to WormBase Help
 
*Someone (WB person) should go to the Asia WormBase meeting (every 2 years)
 
 
 
 
 
Intermine/Wormmine workshop at 2013 IWM
 
*Organizers:
 
**Monica Colaiacovo (mcolaiacovo AT genetics DOT med DOT harvard DOT edu)
 
**Ralf J. Sommer (ralf DOT sommer AT tuebingen DOT mpg DOT de)
 
*WormMine session in WormBase workshop
 
*Who (at WB) will organize workshop? Michael Paulini
 
 
 
 
 
WormBase website questionaire:
 
*What do people find on the legacy that they can't find on the new site?
 
**SNPs, validated vs. predicted
 
*Have posters and/or live demos at poster sessions? Walk around with tablets?
 
*We can make YouTube videos:
 
**5 minutes or less
 
**Could triage topics in a topics tree on Wiki page
 
**Curators could check-off certain queries as they make them
 
 
 
 
 
WikiPathways
 
*Building templates with genes and an "Arrow" key, with different connection types
 
*They're building now (should be done soon)
 

Revision as of 16:34, 7 March 2013