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= 2020 Meetings =
 
= 2020 Meetings =
  
== January 9, 2020 ==
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_January_2020|January]]
  
=== Phenotype Curation Requests ===
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_February_2020|February]]
* 1,229 emails sent Dec 3-6, 2019
 
* Received 194 annotations from 40 papers and from 37 distinct community curators
 
** 37 papers requested, 3 additional papers annotated
 
** 104 Phenotype OA annotations (from 27 papers; 25 distinct curators)
 
** 90 RNAi OA annotations (from 20 papers; 19 distinct curators)
 
* 43 bounced emails
 
** 2 resent to new addresses
 
** 5 have backup email addresses (also sent)
 
  
=== Worm Area Meetings ===
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_March_2020|March]]
* Chris has (re)requested slots for WormBase for the Worcester Area Worm Meeting and the Boston Area Worm Meeting
 
* Will update group if/when a slot is assigned (probably not until Fall 2020 at the earliest)
 
  
=== Reference widget Textpresso linkouts ===
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_April_2020|April]]
* Now live on WormBase, WS274
 
* [https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/7347 GitHub ticket]
 
* Applies to the following classes: genes, strains, variations, transgenes, constructs, anatomy terms, clones, life stages, rearrangements, molecules, processes
 
* Gene example: https://wormbase.org/species/c_elegans/gene/WBGene00022861#0d--10
 
* Strain example: https://wormbase.org/species/c_elegans/strain/WBStrain00004309#05--10
 
* Variation example: https://wormbase.org/species/c_elegans/variation/WBVar00248884#08--10
 
* Transgene example: https://wormbase.org/species/all/transgene/WBTransgene00004654#04--10
 
** Known issue: searching on synonyms in addition to public name; Sibyl will fix
 
* Construct example: https://wormbase.org/species/all/construct/WBCnstr00023113#03--10
 
** Known issue: not working now; need to only search on public name when available, not on summary; Sibyl will fix
 
* Anatomy term example: https://wormbase.org/species/all/anatomy_term/WBbt:0005772#05--10
 
** Known challenge: "Psub1" will essentially never match the intended target and "P1" may find the embryonic cell or the postembryonic cell
 
* Clone example: https://wormbase.org/species/c_elegans/clone/W02C12#03--10
 
* Life stage example: https://wormbase.org/species/all/life_stage/WBls:0000038#03--10
 
** Known challenge: "L4 larva Ce" will never match; "L4 larva" maybe; but "L4" alone will not unless a synonym
 
* Rearrangement example: https://wormbase.org/species/all/rearrangement/sDp3#03--10
 
* Molecule example: https://wormbase.org/resources/molecule/WBMol:00003650#03--10
 
* Process examples:
 
** https://wormbase.org/resources/wbprocess/WBbiopr:00000001#09--10
 
** https://wormbase.org/resources/wbprocess/WBbiopr:00000079#09--10
 
* Michael has improved phrase search and combined supplemental documents with main paper documents; should roll out soon
 
  
=== WS276 Citace upload ===
 
* Hinxton upload Jan 31, 2020
 
* Citace upload on Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020
 
  
=== Author First Pass paper ===
 
* AFP resent to Database
 
* Automated descriptions about to be sent
 
* SObA, write for micropub? One micropub on SObA and another on comparative SObA
 
  
=== Noctua/GO-CAM ===
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== May 7, 2020 ==
* New version of the Noctua form released next week
 
* Imports from WormBase?
 
** Big push in coming months will be to pull in all manual annotations from WB into Noctua (on track)
 
** Need to work on annotation history on back end
 
** May have face-to-face meeting in Pasadena
 
  
=== Variation curation ===
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=== Alliance COVID Page ===
* Have a backlog; Paul D is assigned but has been overwhelmed
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* Available on stage
* Have asserted this as a priority
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* Textpresso for Coronavirus up for testing
* We have the allele-sequence form; where does it go? Hinxton
 
* Need to get allele/variation data in an Alliance-submission friendly form and pull it into the Alliance
 
* Need to integrate curation with the Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) pipeline
 
  
=== Topic meetings ===
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=== SimpleMine at Alliance ===
* Asia (Taipei) meeting, Paul S going
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* Still some confusion about what it is
* Aging meeting, Wen could go? (Wen: I can ask if they provide a timeslot for oral presentation.)
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* Will try to help clarify on PI meeting on Friday
* TAGC in April, Chris going
 
  
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=== Development environment for Alliance work ===
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* Raymond and Juancarlos have been working on
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* Existing hardware is strained; set up virtual machine
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* Still some technical issues
  
== January 16, 2020 ==
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=== Open Publishing Festival ===
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* Later this month
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* Micropublications involved
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* Organized by the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
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* Will involve publishers of books, journals, etc.
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* Will have a MOD-focused event, would be good to have WB curators participate/attend
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* Open to all
  
=== Variation names ===
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=== Genotype class ===
* Daniela entered a new allele name (tkTi1) in the temporary allele form CGI but it prompted an error: tkTi1 does not match 1 or 2 sets of 1-3 letters and 1-6 digits
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* Ranjana finished populating the Genotype OA with genotypes needed for disease curation
* Daniela asked Juancarlos to modify the temporary variation ID form to allow up to 4 letters instead of 3.
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* Will need to keep in mind that we will have a mapping pipeline to determine which genes are involved for a variation
* Form here: http://tazendra.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/forms/generic.cgi?action=TempVariationObo
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* There could end up being a discrepancy between an original or published name of a genotype and the components that are inferred by WormBase
* From the nomenclature guidelines: Newly generated Transposon insertions, especially those located in apparently intergenic regions, may also be given Ti (transposon insertion) names. These consist of the designation identifying the laboratory of origin, the two letters Ti, and a number, all italicized. Example: eTi13 is an insertion of a Mos transposon into an intergenic region on LGIII.
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* Would be good to be clear/transparent about which components were automatically inferred
* We will wait for Paul D/Tim response and act accordingly
 
* for now the CGI has been changed to allow 4 letters, we will revert if need be
 
  
=== Webinars ===
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=== WS277/278 ===
* During an AFP call we discussed the possibility to have webinars for authors to guide them through the form.
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* Pipelines are pushed back by about 14 days/2 weeks
* Is having a webinar series something WB is interested in doing?
 
** we will start with an AFP/micropub webinar and will take it from there based on interest and attendance
 
  
  
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==May 13, 2020==
  
== January 23, 2020 ==
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=== SURF students ===
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* Welcome Fernando!
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* Will work on neuron function with respect to dauer formation
  
=== WS276 Citace upload ===
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=== Progress Report ===
* Next Tuesday, Jan 28 10am Pacific
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* Review Google Doc from Paul to make sure you're latest updates are there
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* Doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f3ettnkvwoKKiaAA4TSrpSQPEF7FmVVn6u2UdflA_So/edit?usp=sharing
  
=== Extracellular/secreted proteins list ===
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===Genotype class===
* Peter Roy looking for a list of C. elegans genes whose protein products are secreted
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*Have 27 genotypes in the genotype OA, dumper and test .ace file ready
* Chris pointed him to BioMart search for SignalP and transmembrane proteins, and to the GO term page for "extracellular region" but Peter doesn't think that's exhaustive enough
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*Will test ace file in citace as soon as we get the new models file, can also send to Paul D., in advance to test
* Does anyone have any other suggestions or know of an empirical data set?
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*Disease OA annotations now converted to the newly created genotypes where needed
* A survey of putative secreted and transmembrane proteins encoded in the C. elegans genome: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22823938
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*Need to work on disease dumper changes next
* PF00188 Cysteine-rich secretory protein family Pfam
 
** This is a large family of cysteine-rich secretory proteins, antigen 5, and pathogenesis-related 1 proteins (CAP) that are found in a wide range of organisms, including prokaryotes [PMID:12625841]
 
  
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=== What genes should be linked to genotypes? ===
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* We have a "Gene" tag in the ?Genotype model for capturing relevant genes
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* What should we consider a "relevant gene"?
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* We plan to populate the "Gene" tag with genes identified by the variation-to-gene mapping pipeline
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* For transgenes, what genes should be extracted as "relevant"? Genes whose promoters are cloned? Genes that are expressed? Genes whose 3'UTR's are cloned? Wild type rescue genes used as a marker/selection tool, e.g. "unc-119(+)"?
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* For rearrangements, consider relevant any genes "inside" the rearrangement?
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* For now, we will omit any genes from transgenes or rearrangements from being dumped into the "Gene" tag
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* In the future, we may want to consider genes that have been specifically annotated as having some functional consequence and informs that the gene is of functional relevance to the genotype
  
== January 30, 2020 ==
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=== Volunteer Community Curators ===
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* Have had an additional 13 people volunteer
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* Single one-on-one tutorial for someone in Hong Kong this past Monday
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* Chris will hold a tutorial today and tomorrow for everyone else
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* Have received many new community annotations from volunteers (and authors), validation still pending
  
=== WormBase sponsorship of TAGC C. elegans community mixer? ===
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=== Open Publishing Festival ===
* Anne Marie Mahoney has asked if WormBase is interested in sponsoring the TAGC meeting's C. elegans community mixer
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* Ranjana will join as a panelist
* For reference, someone just sponsored the Yeast Mixer for $2,500
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* Other MOD curators will also join
* In order to be listed as a sponsor in the meeting book, they need our response by next Friday (Feb 7th); if we agree after that, the mixer will display us as sponsor but we won't be in the book
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* Festival calendar: https://openpublishingfest.org/calendar.html
  
=== Boston Area Worm Meeting talk confirmed ===
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=== Move to Chen building ===
* We will get a BAWM slot for September 23rd, 2020
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* Scheduled for late January 2021
* Chris will plan on presenting
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=== First completely virtual GO meeting ===
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* Kimberly: went really well
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* Only met 4 hours per day, due to time zone differences
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* Had breakout sessions for focus groups
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=== Alliance Literature Acquisition working group ===
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* Plan to come up with use cases for OntoMate and Textpresso
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**Ontomate link https://rgd.mcw.edu/QueryBuilder/
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* Kimberly plans to draw up most common use cases for Textpresso
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* Google doc for test cases: https://rgd.mcw.edu/QueryBuilder/getResult/?qFieldConditions%5B0%5D.fieldName=ontology&qFieldConditions%5B0%5D.fieldValue=Coronavirus%20infectious%20disease
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== May 21, 2020 ==
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=== Volunteer curators ===
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* Received surge of annotations earlier this week
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* All tutorials done for now; all but 3 recorded
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* Each tutorial is ~1 hour in length
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=== AFP tutorial ===
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* AFP group working on tutorial/webinar
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* Had someone on phenotype curation tutorial specifically asking about it (Kimberly responded)
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=== Open Publishing Festival ===
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* Had micropublication session yesterday, went well
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* Had ~50 participants
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* Saved Zoom chats? Can get public ones, maybe not private ones
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== May 28, 2020 ==
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=== Wormicloud ===
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* Introducing a new tool for a graphical summary of queried papers, Please take a look and leave any comments on it. (http://textpressocentral.org:5010/)
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=== Genes to Physical Map ===
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* https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1e83jv94-eO_VQ7kKdJ36TgDDb4WRkFhM?usp=sharing
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To run: Runtime->Run All. Change the list of gene names and run again.

Revision as of 18:15, 28 May 2020

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January

February

March

April


May 7, 2020

Alliance COVID Page

  • Available on stage
  • Textpresso for Coronavirus up for testing

SimpleMine at Alliance

  • Still some confusion about what it is
  • Will try to help clarify on PI meeting on Friday

Development environment for Alliance work

  • Raymond and Juancarlos have been working on
  • Existing hardware is strained; set up virtual machine
  • Still some technical issues

Open Publishing Festival

  • Later this month
  • Micropublications involved
  • Organized by the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
  • Will involve publishers of books, journals, etc.
  • Will have a MOD-focused event, would be good to have WB curators participate/attend
  • Open to all

Genotype class

  • Ranjana finished populating the Genotype OA with genotypes needed for disease curation
  • Will need to keep in mind that we will have a mapping pipeline to determine which genes are involved for a variation
  • There could end up being a discrepancy between an original or published name of a genotype and the components that are inferred by WormBase
  • Would be good to be clear/transparent about which components were automatically inferred

WS277/278

  • Pipelines are pushed back by about 14 days/2 weeks


May 13, 2020

SURF students

  • Welcome Fernando!
  • Will work on neuron function with respect to dauer formation

Progress Report

Genotype class

  • Have 27 genotypes in the genotype OA, dumper and test .ace file ready
  • Will test ace file in citace as soon as we get the new models file, can also send to Paul D., in advance to test
  • Disease OA annotations now converted to the newly created genotypes where needed
  • Need to work on disease dumper changes next

What genes should be linked to genotypes?

  • We have a "Gene" tag in the ?Genotype model for capturing relevant genes
  • What should we consider a "relevant gene"?
  • We plan to populate the "Gene" tag with genes identified by the variation-to-gene mapping pipeline
  • For transgenes, what genes should be extracted as "relevant"? Genes whose promoters are cloned? Genes that are expressed? Genes whose 3'UTR's are cloned? Wild type rescue genes used as a marker/selection tool, e.g. "unc-119(+)"?
  • For rearrangements, consider relevant any genes "inside" the rearrangement?
  • For now, we will omit any genes from transgenes or rearrangements from being dumped into the "Gene" tag
  • In the future, we may want to consider genes that have been specifically annotated as having some functional consequence and informs that the gene is of functional relevance to the genotype

Volunteer Community Curators

  • Have had an additional 13 people volunteer
  • Single one-on-one tutorial for someone in Hong Kong this past Monday
  • Chris will hold a tutorial today and tomorrow for everyone else
  • Have received many new community annotations from volunteers (and authors), validation still pending

Open Publishing Festival

Move to Chen building

  • Scheduled for late January 2021

First completely virtual GO meeting

  • Kimberly: went really well
  • Only met 4 hours per day, due to time zone differences
  • Had breakout sessions for focus groups

Alliance Literature Acquisition working group


May 21, 2020

Volunteer curators

  • Received surge of annotations earlier this week
  • All tutorials done for now; all but 3 recorded
  • Each tutorial is ~1 hour in length

AFP tutorial

  • AFP group working on tutorial/webinar
  • Had someone on phenotype curation tutorial specifically asking about it (Kimberly responded)

Open Publishing Festival

  • Had micropublication session yesterday, went well
  • Had ~50 participants
  • Saved Zoom chats? Can get public ones, maybe not private ones


May 28, 2020

Wormicloud

Genes to Physical Map

To run: Runtime->Run All. Change the list of gene names and run again.