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= 2020 Meetings =
  
= 2019 Meetings =
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_January_2020|January]]
 
 
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_January_2019|January]]
 
 
 
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_February_2019|February]]
 
 
 
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_March_2019|March]]
 
 
 
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_April_2019|April]]
 
 
 
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_May_2019|May]]
 
 
 
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_June_2019|June]]
 
 
 
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_July_2019|July]]
 
 
 
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_August_2019|August]]
 
 
 
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_September_2019|September]]
 
 
 
 
 
== October 3, 2019 ==
 
 
 
=== SObA comparison graphs ===
 
* Raymond and Juancarlos have worked on a SObA-graph based comparison tool to compare two genes for ontology-based annotations
 
* [http://wobr2.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/soba_multi.cgi?action=Gene+Pair+to+SObA+Graph Prototype 1]
 
** [http://wobr2.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/soba_multi.cgi?action=annotSummaryCytoscape&filterForLcaFlag=1&filterLongestFlag=1&showControlsFlag=0&datatype=phenotype&geneOneValue=lin-3%20(Caenorhabditis%20elegans,%20WB:WBGene00002992,%20-,%20F36H1.4)&autocompleteValue=let-23%20(Caenorhabditis%20elegans,%20WB:WBGene00002299,%20-,%20ZK1067.1 Example comparison between lin-3 and let-23]
 
* [http://wobr1.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/soba_multi.cgi?action=Gene+Pair+to+SObA+Graph Prototype 2]
 
** [http://wobr1.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/soba_multi.cgi?action=annotSummaryCytoscape&filterForLcaFlag=1&filterLongestFlag=1&showControlsFlag=0&datatype=phenotype&geneOneValue=lin-3%20(Caenorhabditis%20elegans,%20WB:WBGene00002992,%20-,%20F36H1.4)&autocompleteValue=let-23%20(Caenorhabditis%20elegans,%20WB:WBGene00002299,%20-,%20ZK1067.1) Example comparison between lin-3 and let-23]
 
* What information does a user most care about?
 
# What terms (nodes) are annotated to gene 1 and what terms to gene 2
 
# For a given term, what is the relative number of annotations between gene 1 and gene 2.
 
# For a given node, what is the relative number of annotations each gene has to the total annotations of that gene.
 
* # 3 is actually what we applied to size the nodes in the single-gene version of SObA. Thus, not surprisingly, I think it is important.
 
* Generally people like Prototype 2 as a default view; we could possibly have a toggle to see the other view
 
* In either case users need a good legend and/or documentation
 
* Jae, it would be good if a user could specifically highlight nodes specific to each gene and gray-out or de-emphasize the common nodes
 
 
 
=== Germ line discussion ===
 
* Currently, the anatomy ontology has "germ line" as a type of "Cell" and a type of "Tissue", and "germ cell" as a type of "germ line"
 
* Chris would like to (1) remove "germ line" from under "Cell" and leave it under "Tissue" and (2) move "germ cell" out from under "germ line" and place directly under "Cell"
 
** [https://github.com/obophenotype/c-elegans-gross-anatomy-ontology/pull/23 Made pull request]
 
* Chris will update pull request to include a change to move "germline precursor cell" out from under "germ line" and place it under "Cell" (done)
 
 
 
=== Script to remove blank entries from Postgres ===
 
* Chris stumbled across several entries in the OA that were blank (empty strings) or consisted of only whitespace, some of which were causing errors upon upload to ACEDB
 
* Juancarlos has written a script to look for all such entries; 66 tables have them on sandbox (likely same on live OA)
 
* Does anyone object to removing these entries throughout Postgres?
 
* Juancarlos will remove all the empty fields identified by his script
 
 
 
 
 
== October 10, 2019 ==
 
 
 
=== Biocuration 2020 ===
 
* Held in Bar Harbor, Maine (organized by JAX, including MGI's Sue Bello and Cindy Smith)
 
* Dates: Sunday May 17th to Wednesday May 20th, 2020
 
* Will have 3rd POTATO workshop
 
* [https://www.jax.org/education-and-learning/education-calendar/2020/05-may/biocuration-2020-conference Meeting website]
 
* Key Dates
 
** October 31, 2019 - Paper Submission Deadline
 
** January 24, 2020 - Abstract  and Workshop Submission Deadline
 
** March 6, 2020 - Notification of Acceptance
 
** April 6, 2020 - Early Bird Registration Ends
 
** May 8, 2020 - Registration Deadline
 
* Academic ISB Member, early bird registration fee is $250
 
* Author First Pass form paper, submitting to Database, biocuration issue (managed by biocuration group); authors have an opportunity to present at Biocuration conference
 
 
 
=== ICBO 2020 ===
 
* International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies
 
* [https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/ Meeting website]
 
* Held in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 
* 16 - 19 September 2020
 
 
 
=== SObA comparison tool ===
 
* [http://wobr2.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/soba_multi.cgi?action=Gene+Pair+to+SObA+Graph Prototype #1] updated
 
 
 
=== Textpresso derived paper connections ===
 
* For example for strains and constructs, maybe anatomy terms?
 
* May want to flag Textpresso predictions (as opposed to manually connected)
 
* Couple of options:
 
** 1) At time of build, populate the papers (in ACEDB/Datomic) into a 'Putative_reference' tag and display in a distinct 'Putative references' widget
 
** 2) Not part of database build, but make associations live (using RESTful API to link out to Textpresso and submit search with URL) using Textpresso with links to Textpresso and Textpresso results, giving users chance to see context of matches in sentences at the Textpresso site
 
*** A link to Textpresso could be done regardless of other approaches; low-hanging fruit?
 
*** Do a diff so that Textpresso pulls up only additional papers (not already associated)?
 
** 3) Could populate WB page with connections made through a Textpresso API call (could cache results? maybe, but might as well choose 1st option?)
 
* Transgene pipeline:
 
** Arun wrote script, matching transgene names (using regex; Is and Si transgenes) to papers, automatically populate OA
 
** Another script, captures Ex transgenes as well, automatically connects to construct objects
 
** WB only displays verified papers; unverified (predicted) associations are not dumped
 
* Could integrate author verification as part of AFP pipeline, even for older papers? Would we want to re-request AFP results for authors that have already replied in the past? Probably not
 
* Could embed AFP predictions in WB display with link to AFP form for authors (and others?) to verify, via logged-in users? Or via a validation token sent via email?
 
* Chris will make GitHub ticket to ask WB web team to add a link to Textpresso search from References widget on respective page; will require a Textpresso URL constructor
 
* Can apply to: genes, transgenes, constructs, strains, alleles, AFP-vetted entities
 
 
 
 
 
== October 17, 2019 ==
 
 
 
=== Alliance All Hands Face-to-Face ===
 
* Flights: has everyone already booked? No, not yet
 
* Any coordination of flights from Pasadena/LA?
 
** Ranjana and Valerio got a direct flight from Burbank to Boston on Sunday for premeetings
 
  
=== SObA Comparison Tool ===
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_February_2020|February]]
* http://wobr2.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/soba_multi.cgi?action=Gene+Pair+to+SObA+Graph
 
* Prototype discussed last week, updated with feedback from prior discussions
 
* Would this be a stand-alone tool discoverable under the Tools menu?
 
** Possibly; could be a gene page widget, but may be out of place
 
** Stand-alone tool probably makes more sense
 
* Life stage graph doesn't specify expression pattern vs. expression cluster; pretty much only expression patterns (no clusters)
 
  
=== SObA ===
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_March_2020|March]]
* Raymond intending to share progress on SObA at December Alliance All-Hands Face-to-Face
 
* For example, share GO SObA graph for other species
 
* Will need to be dependent on a SOLR server with all species data
 
** Raymond has run into problems trying to setup his own SOLR server
 
** Raymond asked Seth Carbon if we could us GO server, but he prefers not
 
** Appear to be software versioning issues, possible memory issues
 
  
=== GO meeting ===
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_April_2020|April]]
* Kimberly can give update on recent updates to GO from the recent GO meeting
 
* Slides are shared online
 
  
=== "all stages Ce" life stage ===
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_May_2020|May]]
* Currently used to annotate that RNA was collected from, or a gene was observed to be expressed during, all C. elegans life stages
 
* "all stages Ce" is currently the root node of the C. elegans branch, but needs to change to generic "C. elegans life stage"
 
* Should we:
 
** 1) Create a "C. elegans life span" or "C. elegans life cycle" term to represent the entire life span and annotate to that?
 
*** Does this mean that, for example, a gene is expressed at some point during the life cycle or consistently throughout the entire life span?
 
** 2) Annotate instead to, for example, "embryo Ce", "larva Ce", and "adult Ce" individually
 
* Note: authors are often vague in their descriptions simply saying "during all stages" possibly stating a beginning and end of the range
 
* Wen: not comfortable making a decision right now; want to discuss with Gary Williams and with other MOD members about how to handle large scale expression data
 
* Daniela: will look through existing (old and new) expression pattern annotations made to "all stages Ce" to see if it would be reasonable to annotate each case individually to "embryo Ce", "larva Ce", and "adult Ce" individually
 
  
=== Gene class missing description ===
 
* The gene class "aatf" has no description, so in the aatf-1 gene page Overview widget, the gene has empty parentheses next to the gene name where there should be a description of what "aatf" stands for (coming from the ?Gene_class description)
 
* Jae or Ranjana will create a ticket and assign it to someone at Hinxton
 
  
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== June 4, 2020 ==
  
== October 24, 2019 ==
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=== Citace (tentative) upload ===
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* CIT curators upload to citace on Tuesday, July 7th, 10am Pacific
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* Citace upload to Hinxton on Friday, July 10th
  
=== Textpresso links from WB page References widgets ===
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=== Caltech reopening ===
* Discussed with Sibyl and Adam on last week's Textpresso call
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* Paul looking to get plan approved
* Sibyl working on mockups for including Textpresso derived paper associations in the References widget
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* People that want to come to campus need to watch training video
* Had originally considered for the following classes
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* Masks available in Paul's lab
** Strain
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* Can have maximum of 3 people in WormBase rooms at a time; probably best to only allow one person per WB room
** Gene
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** Could possibly have 2 people in big room (Church 64) as long as they stay at least 10 feet apart
** Variation
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* Need to coordinate, maybe make a Google calendar to do so (also Slack)
** Transgene
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* Before and after you go to campus, you need to take your temperature and assess your symptoms (if any) and submit info on form
** Construct
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* Also, need to submit who you were in contact with for contact tracing
** Anatomy_term
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* Form is used all week, and hold on to it until asked to be submitted
* Sibyl asks: could we put this link in all References widgets in WB?
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* If someone goes in to the office, they could print several forms for people to pick up in WB offices
** Classes with References widgets include:
 
*** Antibody
 
*** Clone
 
*** Construct
 
*** Expression cluster
 
*** Expression pattern
 
*** Gene
 
*** Interaction
 
*** Life stage
 
*** Rearrangement
 
*** RNAi
 
*** Strain
 
*** Transgene
 
*** Variation
 
*** Analysis
 
*** Molecule
 
*** Process
 
** Any Textpresso search on internal WB identifiers, like WBInteraction000###### or WBRNAi00######, or on long complicated names is certainly meaningless, so the following classes are probably ruled out:
 
*** Antibody
 
*** Expression cluster
 
*** Expression pattern
 
*** Interaction
 
*** RNAi
 
*** Analysis
 
** Otherwise it could probably be beneficial to include the additional classes, searching on public name:
 
*** Clone
 
*** Life stage
 
*** Rearrangement
 
*** Molecule
 
*** Process
 
* Created Google Doc summary [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19y5wNIHLmBRm4z7Rz6NG-NQYlZbtobXuQcH6dz0s8Rg/edit?usp=sharing here]
 
* So the current list of candidate classes is:
 
** Strain
 
** Gene
 
** Variation
 
** Transgene
 
** Construct
 
** Anatomy_term (no References widget currently)
 
** Clone
 
** Life stage
 
** Rearrangement
 
** Molecule
 
** Process
 
* Eventually, we may want to incorporate papers found by Textpresso directly into the References widget
 
** We would want predicted associations to be made explicitly so
 
** We could populate the database, but there are reservations about doing this
 
  
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=== Nameserver ===
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* Nameserver was down
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* CIT curators would still like to have a single form to interact with
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* Is it possible to create objects at Caltech and let a cronjob assign IDs via the nameserver? May not be a good idea
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* Still putting genotype and all info for a strain in the reason/why field in the nameserver
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* We plan to eventually connect strains to genotypes, but need model changes and curation effort to sort out
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* Hinxton is pulling in CGC strains, how often?
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* Caltech could possibly get a block of IDs
  
=== Updates from GOC Meeting, Berkeley ===
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=== Alliance SimpleMine ===
* Status of MOD Imports into Noctua
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* Any updates? 3.1 feature freeze is tomorrow
** Starting with WormBase and MGI GO annotations into GO-CAM
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* Pending on PI decision; Paul S. will bring it up tomorrow on the Alliance PI call
* GO-CAM Specifications and Validation
 
* Noctua Form
 
* Pathways2GO
 
* Priorities for next 6 months:
 
** Create gene-centric Noctua views
 
** Create pathway-centric Noctua views
 

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June 4, 2020

Citace (tentative) upload

  • CIT curators upload to citace on Tuesday, July 7th, 10am Pacific
  • Citace upload to Hinxton on Friday, July 10th

Caltech reopening

  • Paul looking to get plan approved
  • People that want to come to campus need to watch training video
  • Masks available in Paul's lab
  • Can have maximum of 3 people in WormBase rooms at a time; probably best to only allow one person per WB room
    • Could possibly have 2 people in big room (Church 64) as long as they stay at least 10 feet apart
  • Need to coordinate, maybe make a Google calendar to do so (also Slack)
  • Before and after you go to campus, you need to take your temperature and assess your symptoms (if any) and submit info on form
  • Also, need to submit who you were in contact with for contact tracing
  • Form is used all week, and hold on to it until asked to be submitted
  • If someone goes in to the office, they could print several forms for people to pick up in WB offices

Nameserver

  • Nameserver was down
  • CIT curators would still like to have a single form to interact with
  • Is it possible to create objects at Caltech and let a cronjob assign IDs via the nameserver? May not be a good idea
  • Still putting genotype and all info for a strain in the reason/why field in the nameserver
  • We plan to eventually connect strains to genotypes, but need model changes and curation effort to sort out
  • Hinxton is pulling in CGC strains, how often?
  • Caltech could possibly get a block of IDs

Alliance SimpleMine

  • Any updates? 3.1 feature freeze is tomorrow
  • Pending on PI decision; Paul S. will bring it up tomorrow on the Alliance PI call