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= 2017 Meetings =
 
= 2017 Meetings =
  
== January 5, 2017 ==
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_January_2017|January]]
 
 
=== BioCurator meeting ===
 
* Who from WormBase will go?
 
** Raymond (SObA), Chris (Community curation), Mary Ann, Wen would like to go
 
** Daniela maybe for micropublication
 
 
 
=== International C. elegans Meeting ===
 
* June 2017
 
* Whether all WB staff go depends on whether we have an all hands meeting before/after
 
* Plenty of things to present; AGR stuff etc.
 
 
 
=== Citace upload ===
 
* Prepare files by 10am on Tuesday, Jan 10
 
 
 
=== LEGO curation ===
 
* Kimberly working on different C. elegans models
 
* Working on several pathways simultaneously
 
* Should be in production soon (this year), fully evidenced
 
* Full benefit may not be apparent until AGR has LEGO fully integrated
 
* Working out how inferred annotations propagate from Noctua/LEGO model to GAF
 
* MGI creating many LEGO models
 
* How are curators, that went to training, using LEGO?
 
* Curation level view may not be amenable to general biologist/user viewing
 
* What is the best existing pathway display? WikiPathways? Protege?
 
* GO people (Seth, Chris M., Suzi etc.) are working on display, but have limited resources for this
 
* Maybe we could work with WikiPathways team?
 
* Pathway studio at RGD? Manually generated
 
* Should WB have a LEGO call? Yes, probably
 
* Curators may need access to Protein2GO for full curation/inference by sequence similarity
 
* How do we/should we resolve parallel pipelines for curating cellular component data (Go versus Expression pattern)?
 
* How do we accommodate specific versus general processes? E.g. specific versus general cell division
 
* We would like a mechanism for a LEGO curator to pull relevant data from GAF
 
* We would like curators to focus on pathway perspective of curation, where authors can submit experimental details with a potential automated or semi-automated mechanism to bridge the gap
 
 
 
=== Expression widget ===
 
* Daniela and Sibyl working on a more compact display of the expression data widget on gene pages
 
* Should we keep subcellular localization in the expression widget? Yes
 
 
 
=== SObA for Gene Ontology ===
 
* Raymond and Juancarlos working on
 
* First for WormBase, eventually want for AGR
 
* For GO data, will have three different roots (for each branch of GO); One DAG for each
 
* Could have phenotype graphs from particular perspective, e.g. via anatomy, via life stage, via GO, etc.
 
* Would be great to have a comparative view mechanism
 
 
 
== January 12, 2017 ==
 
=== Caltech LEGO Call ===
 
*Confirm time: Mondays, 11am PST (2pm EST/7pm GMT)
 
*Start January 23rd
 
*Format?
 
**Start with curation of one paper together?
 
***Possible paper: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27881675  The Intestinal Copper Exporter CUA-1 Is Required for Systemic Copper Homeostasis in Caenorhabditis elegans.]
 
**Curators then select individual topics?
 
 
 
=== Switching website to run off Datomic ===
 
* Juancarlos joining biweekly call on Wednesdays with Adam, Matt, and Sibyl
 
* Juancarlos working on Person page widgets currently
 
** Intellectual lineage graph will need to be rewritten in Clojure
 
* Web team is working out the file/directory structure to organize widget generation
 
* Is the Datomic database denormalized? To what extent? No, not really
 
** This affects how we might eventually write into Datomic from our curation database
 
* May be best for Caltech to keep a Postgres curation database in parallel to Datomic (and eventually sync nightly)
 
** This may also be best with AGR as well
 
 
 
=== Biocuration meeting 2017 ===
 
* Who's going? Ranjana, Chris, Raymond, Mary Ann, Daniela (if she gets a talk)
 
* Ranjana - automated descriptions
 
* Raymond - SObA graph
 
* Chris - Genetic interactions
 
* Mary Ann - Community curation
 
* Daniela - Micropublications
 
 
 
=== Community curation presentation on AGR curator call ===
 
* Chris and Val Wood presented; minutes are here- [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PdmdnTduxidxaljExTbalNA4ReyIRsZZmV6U-5ckXiI/edit AGR minutes]
 
* WB community curation numbers
 
** 321 papers solicited and community curated (Phenotype OA)
 
** 417 papers community curated in total (Phenotype OA)
 
** 313 unique community curators (Phen OA); average 8 annotations per curator
 
** 64 papers solicited and community curated (RNAi OA)
 
** 74 papers community curated in total (RNAi OA)
 
** 61 unique community curators (RNAi OA); average 16 annotations per curator
 
** 3324 annotations total; 2969 valid and confirmed
 
** 2111 solicitations gone out; 16% response rate
 
 
 
Val presented some information on how complete contributors were:
 
*''1990s were getting 10 annotations/paper, in most recent years are now getting 50 annots/paper (years are publication years)''
 
*''Curation quality - users often omit a data type, but for what they do curate, they are generally very accurate, and often request more specific terms''
 
 
 
Chris suspects ~20% authors are complete in their phenotype curation of their paper.
 
 
 
=== Pulling WB data into LEGO models ===
 
* Phenotype data requires a mapping step to map alleles and RNAi to genes
 
* How might we crowd source or get low cost curators to curate bulk data? Followed by expert curation for LEGO models
 
* May be best for curators to take on specific topics of biology
 
 
 
 
 
== January 19, 2017 ==
 
 
 
=== SObA graph for Gene Ontology ===
 
* Juancarlos and Raymond asking for feedback on GO SObA graph
 
* Kimberly: Can we create graphs for subsets of annotations (manual vs. automated)?
 
** Raymond: It's doable as a standalone graph, but may be difficult to make an option embedded within the core display
 
** May be a way to display IEA annotations separately from non-IEA annotations
 
** Raymond: Can develop a personal view for Kimberly to visualize manual vs. automated annotations
 
* Three root terms for GO, displayed side-by-side in the same graph; root nodes are different sizes and not necessarily displayed aligned
 
* May be able to force the root nodes to be the same size
 
* May want to show/hide individual roots; doable although unclear how difficult to implement
 
* GO function and component are likely to be smaller networks than process
 
* Pulling data from GAF into Solr
 
* Can this be adopted for the AGR portal? Yes
 
 
 
=== WormBase workshop at 2017 IWM ===
 
* Ranjana organizing
 
* Discuss ideas with Ranjana
 
* Have 1.5 - 2 hours
 
* Will want to discuss micropublications and community annotations
 
* We haven't had mirrors in a long time: discuss Datomic for people who want to query? Yes, brief announcement
 
 
 
=== User Survey ===
 
* We may want user surveys to prepare for grant writing, progress report
 
* Could send out to users by May?
 
* What to focus on: performance, data types, usability
 
* Could have multiple short surveys
 
* What one question would we want answers to help with design decisions?
 
* Do we want (eventually for AGR) a professional surveyor?
 
* Are our services meeting user needs?
 
* We can take a closer look at user logs; see what data, widgets, tools used most frequently (least frequently)
 
* We could create focus groups to get feedback from users on specific topics (30 minute sessions during poster sessions, for example); maybe at booth? during meal time?
 
** Would want to post a schedule with dedicated locations
 
* Could have WormBase hats, brightly colored ;), to indicate to people that we're WormBase staff
 
 
 
=== Disease data display on AGR portal gene page ===
 
* Working out a way to drill down from a summary view down to detailed table view
 
* Need to make sure it is intuitive and non-jargony for end users
 
* Yvonne Bradford drew up some mockups that represent a ribbon or heatmap display of annotations to disease categories for experimental models, etc.
 
* We do want a SObA graph; could possibly create a SObA graph that represents annotations to a gene AND all of its orthologs
 
 
 
=== First LEGO call ===
 
* This Monday (Jan 23) 11am Pacific
 
 
 
 
 
== January 26, 2017 ==
 
 
 
=== GO-CC annotations to paper term info in OA ===
 
* Daniela working on with Juancarlos
 
 
 
=== Disease working group ===
 
* Working to finalize the DAF (disease association file)
 
* Having extra meeting tomorrow
 
* Will then hand over DAF format to Kevin Howe (WB Data Quartermaster)
 
* In general, Kevin would prefer AGR files to be generated from the WB build process
 
 
 
=== Expression data working group? ===
 
* Daniela asking about an expression working group
 
* We don't have one currently, but one could be generated, although it may not make it into AGR portal 0.3, 0.6 or 1.0
 
 
 
=== Coherence, Consistency, and Continuity working group ===
 
* Working on a standard for table display in AGR portal
 
* Asking for standard functionality
 
** Table filtering, by column
 
** Table sorting, including sort order
 
** Paginated, choosing number of results per page
 
** Download options, tab-delimited and other formats
 
** Link to Intermine, to view, save and manipulate table and lists
 
* Currently WormBase has insufficient means to download some lists of results, for example downloading list of RNAi's that cause a lethal phenotype on the "lethal" phenotype page
 
** WB points users to FTP site, without specifying a file or how to parse
 
 
 
=== WormMine vs AGR Intermine ===
 
* Is Paulo working on shared/AGR Intermine or just WormMine? We think just WormMine
 
* There was an issue with making orthology calls which may have interfered with integrating worm data into common Intermine
 

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