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GoToMeeting link: https://www.gotomeet.me/wormbase1
 
  
  
= 2019 Meetings =
 
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_January_2019|January]]
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= 2020 Meetings =
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_February_2019|February]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_January_2020|January]]
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_March_2019|March]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_February_2020|February]]
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_April_2019|April]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_March_2020|March]]
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_May_2019|May]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_April_2020|April]]
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_June_2019|June]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_May_2020|May]]
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_July_2019|July]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_June_2020|June]]
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_August_2019|August]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_July_2020|July]]
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_September_2019|September]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_August_2020|August]]
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_October_2019|October]]
 
  
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== September 3, 2020 ==
  
== November 7, 2019 ==
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=== WS279 Citace upload ===
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* September 25
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* Local CIT upload (to Wen) Tuesday September 22 by 10am Pacific
  
=== WS275 Citace upload ===
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=== New AFP datatype for curation status form (CSF)? ===
* Maybe Nov 22 upload to Hinxton
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* afp_othergenefunc (to capture gene function other than enzymatic activity)
* CIT curators upload to Spica on Tues Nov 19
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* Can wait a bit before adding to CSF; if there will be dedicated curation for that data type we may add later
  
=== ?Genotype class ===
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=== GO annotation for description ===
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19hP9r6BpPW3FSAeC_67FNyNq58NGp4eaXBT42Ch3gDE/edit?usp=sharing Working data model document]
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* Kimberly will look into 'male tail tip developement' terms for description
* Several classes have a "Genotype" tag with text entry
 
** Strain
 
** 2_point_data
 
** Pos_neg_data
 
** Multi_pt_data
 
** RNAi
 
** Phenotype_info
 
** Mass_spec_experiment (no data as of WS273)
 
** Condition
 
* Collecting all genotype text entries yields ~33,000 unique entries, with many different forms:
 
** Species entries, like "Acrobeloides butschlii wild isolate" or "C. briggsae"
 
** Strain entries, like "BA17[fem-1(hc-17)]" or "BB21" or "BL1[pK08F4.7::K08F4.7::GFP; rol-6(+)]"
 
** Anonymous transgenes, like "BEC-1::GFP" or "CAM-1-GFP" or "Ex[Pnpr-9::unc-103(gf)]"
 
** Complex constructs, like "C56C10.9(gk5253[loxP + Pmyo-2::GFP::unc-54 3' UTR + Prps-27::neoR::unc-54 3' UTR + loxP]) II"
 
** Text descriptions, like "Control" or "WT" or "Control worms fed on HT115 containing the L4440 vector without insert" or "N.A."
 
** Bacterial genotypes, like "E. coli [argA, lysA, mcrA, mcrB, IN(rrnD-rrnE)1, lambda-, rcn14::Tn10(DE3 lysogen::lavUV5 promoter -T7 polymerase]"
 
** Including balancers, like "F26H9.8(ok2510) I/hT2 [bli-4(e937) let-?(q782) qIs48] (I;III)"
 
** Reference to parent strain, like "Parent strain is AG359"
 
** Referring to RNAi, like "Pglr-1::wrm-1(RNAi)" or "Phsp-6::gfp; phb-1(RNAi)"
 
** Referring to apparent null or loss of function alleles, like "Phsp-4::GFP(zcIs4); daf-2(-)" or "ced-10(lf)"
 
  
=== Gene comparison SObA ===
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=== Migrate wobr1 server to AWS ===
* http://wobr2.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/soba_multi.cgi?action=Gene+Pair+to+SObA+Graph
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* SOLR, WOBr, SObA, Enrichment analysis
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* Working with Sibyl on the process
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* Will try migrating wobr1 first, as a test case
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* May eventually move, for example, Tazendra
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** Will there be drawbacks to doing this?
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** Can we regularly ssh into Tazendra on AWS without issue? Costs for transferring large files
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* Don't yet know the details of the costs, but we can try and keep track
 +
* We should move into WB or Alliance AWS instances (or Stanford)
  
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=== WormBase talk at Boston Area Worm Meeting ===
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* https://www.umassmed.edu/ambroslab/meetings/bawm/
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* Meeting will be virtual on Zoom
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* Chris will give a talk September 23rd, 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific (probably first speaker but not sure)
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* Send topic requests to Chris for the talk
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* Current topics:
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** Micropublications
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** Author First Pass
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** Automated Gene Descriptions
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** Community Curation
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** WB Query Tools
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* Chris will ask organizers if others can join: post on WormBase blog? May draw too large an audience for the zoom channel;
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* If the organizers record the talk, we can post it on the blog and WB YouTube channel
  
== November 14, 2019 ==
 
  
=== TAGC meeting ===
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== September 10, 2020 ==
* The Allied Genetics Conference next April (2020) in/near Washington DC
 
* Abstract deadline is Dec 5th
 
* Alliance has a shared booth (3 adjacent booths)
 
* Micropublications will have a booth (Karen and Daniela will attend)
 
* Focus will be on highlighting the Alliance
 
* Workshop at NLM in days following TAGC about curation at scale (Kimberly attending and chairing session)
 
  
=== Alliance all hands meeting ===
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=== GO GAF Files ===
* Lightning talk topics?
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* WS278 GO GAF is using the new 2.2 file format
** Single cell RNA Seq (Eduardo)
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* [https://github.com/geneontology/geneontology.github.io/blob/issue-go-annotation-2917-gaf-2_2-doc/_docs/go-annotation-file-gaf-format-22.md Specifications]
** SimpleMine? (Wen)
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* GO will not be emitting GAF 2.2 until the end of the year (will try to get a fixed date)
** SObA? (Raymond); still working on multi-species SObA
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* Implications for gene descriptions, but what about other tools, applications at WB?
** Phenotype community curation?
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* Some errors in the current WS278 GAF, but will get fixed soon
** Micropublications?
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** Impacts gene descriptions for WS278, so using WS277 for now; will be OK once source GAF is fixed
** AFP?
 
  
=== Alliance general ===
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===Disease files on FTP===
* Alliance needs a curation database
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*No changes for WS278 FTP files, except an extra custom file that Hinxton is producing mostly for gene descriptions so that we don't get the wrong human diseases via poor orthology calls (see GitHub issue https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/7839)
** A curation working group was proposed
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*Will be some consolidation of disease data possibly for WS279 FTP files, implications for downstream tools--gene descriptions, WOBR, ??
** What needs to happen to get this going?
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** Would include text mining tools/resources
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=== WormBase talk at Worcester Area Worm Meeting ===
** Would be good to have something like the curation status form
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* Chris set to give talk on December 1st, 2020, via Zoom, 4pm (or 4:30pm) EST / 1pm Pacific
** MODs likely have their own special requirements, but there should probably be at least a common minimal set of features
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* 30 minute slot; complementary to BAWM talk?
** Variant sequence curation could be a good first start (if all MODs handle their own variant sequence curation) as a common data type
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* WormBase members can attend
* Micropubs pushing data submission forms; might as well house them within the Alliance
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* Would be good to have a common (or individually relevant) AFP form(s) for all Alliance members
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=== WormBase talk at Boston Area Worm Meeting ===
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* https://www.umassmed.edu/ambroslab/meetings/bawm/
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* Chris will give a talk September 23rd (< 2 weeks), 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific (probably first speaker but not sure)
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* WormBase members can attend; Zoom link will be sent next Monday
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=== Worm Anatomy Ontology Fixes ===
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* Raymond working on addressing warnings and errors (missing definitions, duplicate labels, duplicate definitions)
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* Assessing the best way to address them
 +
* Would be good to be able to automate some edits; options:
 +
** Use OWL API (need someone proficient in coding with OWL API)
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** Convert to OBO, programmatically edit, convert back to OWL?
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** Use Cellfie plugin for Protege?
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** Should discuss with Nico once we have a sense as to what changes need to be made
 +
 
 +
=== Dead Variations in Postgres ===
 +
* Currently pulling in variations/alleles from Postgres to populate "allele" and "genetic perturbation" categories in Textpresso
 +
* Noticed that many transgene names were being included, which can result in false positives for the categories
 +
* Looking at Postgres table "obo_data_variation", there are ~100,000 entries, ~40,000 with status "Dead" and ~60,000 with status "Live"
 +
* Trying to determine the history of the "Dead" variations, where most of the transgene names are coming from
 +
* May still want to include "Dead" variations/alleles in Textpresso category for historical reasons
 +
* We could use pattern matching to filter out transgene names
 +
* Possible to search C. elegans corpus for all "real" allele public names in the "Dead" set to see if they should still be included in categories
 +
 
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=== WS279 Citace Upload ===
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* Local Caltech upload to Spica, Tuesday September 22, 10am Pacific
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== September 17, 2020 ==
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=== Species errors in CITace ===
 +
* Wen is reviewing species coming from CIT and will send individual curators lists of species that need correction
 +
 
 +
=== Webinars ===
 +
* We could perform a general WormBase webinar to cover all of WormBase, maybe one hour long
 +
* Allow 20-30 minutes for discussion? Can allow interruptions but plan for one hour
 +
* Follow up with more specific webinars in following months: JBrowse, WormMine, Micropublication, AFP, Textpresso Central, Ontology browser & Enrichment tools, SPELL, ParaSite BioMart
 +
* Chris and Wen can discuss how to setup
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* Should we have people register? Maybe
 +
* AFP probably doesn't need an hour; maybe split an hour across micropublications and AFP?
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=== Transcription factors and regulatory networks ===
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* Had another question about TFs, asking for common TFs for a list of genes
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* An issue is that the TF binding data we have is in disparate forms, trying to reconcile
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* We have a ?Transcription_factor class; it would be good to update and integrate with other related data types
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=== Alzheimer's disease portal ===
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* Funding has been awarded for Alzheimer's research
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* Ranjana: should the disease working group consider more about an Alliance Alzheimer's disease portal?
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* Paul S: Alliance SAB tomorrow; we'll see what the SAB says
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* Can look at other resources like RGD disease portals and Reactome disease-related pathway models
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* Ruth Lovering is doing some work in this regard
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=== GO meeting ===
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* All are welcome to attend
 +
* Will discuss GAF format changes, etc.
 +
* Ranjana: should she and Valerio attend to learn about GO changes that affect the gene descriptions pipeline?
 +
** Kimberly: there could be a particular breakout group that Ranjana and Valerio could attend to discuss
 +
 
 +
=== New GAF 2.2 file ===
 +
* Kimberly has reviewed and sent feedback to Michael P
 +
* Valerio would like to stay in the loop to test the new files
 +
 
 +
=== Data mining tool comparison sheet ===
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* https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vBTDBOKfXn9GcdpF1bXI62VEJ7hwyz2hOyAZcoV1_ng/edit?usp=sharing
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* Needs an update
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* Could we make this available to users? A link in the Tools menu?
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* Is this useful to users? Would they understand it? Maybe be better as a curator resource
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* Could this be micropublished?
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** Possible; may want to consider a series of publications with videos of webinars, etc.

Revision as of 16:39, 17 September 2020

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September 3, 2020

WS279 Citace upload

  • September 25
  • Local CIT upload (to Wen) Tuesday September 22 by 10am Pacific

New AFP datatype for curation status form (CSF)?

  • afp_othergenefunc (to capture gene function other than enzymatic activity)
  • Can wait a bit before adding to CSF; if there will be dedicated curation for that data type we may add later

GO annotation for description

  • Kimberly will look into 'male tail tip developement' terms for description

Migrate wobr1 server to AWS

  • SOLR, WOBr, SObA, Enrichment analysis
  • Working with Sibyl on the process
  • Will try migrating wobr1 first, as a test case
  • May eventually move, for example, Tazendra
    • Will there be drawbacks to doing this?
    • Can we regularly ssh into Tazendra on AWS without issue? Costs for transferring large files
  • Don't yet know the details of the costs, but we can try and keep track
  • We should move into WB or Alliance AWS instances (or Stanford)

WormBase talk at Boston Area Worm Meeting

  • https://www.umassmed.edu/ambroslab/meetings/bawm/
  • Meeting will be virtual on Zoom
  • Chris will give a talk September 23rd, 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific (probably first speaker but not sure)
  • Send topic requests to Chris for the talk
  • Current topics:
    • Micropublications
    • Author First Pass
    • Automated Gene Descriptions
    • Community Curation
    • WB Query Tools
  • Chris will ask organizers if others can join: post on WormBase blog? May draw too large an audience for the zoom channel;
  • If the organizers record the talk, we can post it on the blog and WB YouTube channel


September 10, 2020

GO GAF Files

  • WS278 GO GAF is using the new 2.2 file format
  • Specifications
  • GO will not be emitting GAF 2.2 until the end of the year (will try to get a fixed date)
  • Implications for gene descriptions, but what about other tools, applications at WB?
  • Some errors in the current WS278 GAF, but will get fixed soon
    • Impacts gene descriptions for WS278, so using WS277 for now; will be OK once source GAF is fixed

Disease files on FTP

  • No changes for WS278 FTP files, except an extra custom file that Hinxton is producing mostly for gene descriptions so that we don't get the wrong human diseases via poor orthology calls (see GitHub issue https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/7839)
  • Will be some consolidation of disease data possibly for WS279 FTP files, implications for downstream tools--gene descriptions, WOBR, ??

WormBase talk at Worcester Area Worm Meeting

  • Chris set to give talk on December 1st, 2020, via Zoom, 4pm (or 4:30pm) EST / 1pm Pacific
  • 30 minute slot; complementary to BAWM talk?
  • WormBase members can attend

WormBase talk at Boston Area Worm Meeting

Worm Anatomy Ontology Fixes

  • Raymond working on addressing warnings and errors (missing definitions, duplicate labels, duplicate definitions)
  • Assessing the best way to address them
  • Would be good to be able to automate some edits; options:
    • Use OWL API (need someone proficient in coding with OWL API)
    • Convert to OBO, programmatically edit, convert back to OWL?
    • Use Cellfie plugin for Protege?
    • Should discuss with Nico once we have a sense as to what changes need to be made

Dead Variations in Postgres

  • Currently pulling in variations/alleles from Postgres to populate "allele" and "genetic perturbation" categories in Textpresso
  • Noticed that many transgene names were being included, which can result in false positives for the categories
  • Looking at Postgres table "obo_data_variation", there are ~100,000 entries, ~40,000 with status "Dead" and ~60,000 with status "Live"
  • Trying to determine the history of the "Dead" variations, where most of the transgene names are coming from
  • May still want to include "Dead" variations/alleles in Textpresso category for historical reasons
  • We could use pattern matching to filter out transgene names
  • Possible to search C. elegans corpus for all "real" allele public names in the "Dead" set to see if they should still be included in categories

WS279 Citace Upload

  • Local Caltech upload to Spica, Tuesday September 22, 10am Pacific


September 17, 2020

Species errors in CITace

  • Wen is reviewing species coming from CIT and will send individual curators lists of species that need correction

Webinars

  • We could perform a general WormBase webinar to cover all of WormBase, maybe one hour long
  • Allow 20-30 minutes for discussion? Can allow interruptions but plan for one hour
  • Follow up with more specific webinars in following months: JBrowse, WormMine, Micropublication, AFP, Textpresso Central, Ontology browser & Enrichment tools, SPELL, ParaSite BioMart
  • Chris and Wen can discuss how to setup
  • Should we have people register? Maybe
  • AFP probably doesn't need an hour; maybe split an hour across micropublications and AFP?

Transcription factors and regulatory networks

  • Had another question about TFs, asking for common TFs for a list of genes
  • An issue is that the TF binding data we have is in disparate forms, trying to reconcile
  • We have a ?Transcription_factor class; it would be good to update and integrate with other related data types

Alzheimer's disease portal

  • Funding has been awarded for Alzheimer's research
  • Ranjana: should the disease working group consider more about an Alliance Alzheimer's disease portal?
  • Paul S: Alliance SAB tomorrow; we'll see what the SAB says
  • Can look at other resources like RGD disease portals and Reactome disease-related pathway models
  • Ruth Lovering is doing some work in this regard

GO meeting

  • All are welcome to attend
  • Will discuss GAF format changes, etc.
  • Ranjana: should she and Valerio attend to learn about GO changes that affect the gene descriptions pipeline?
    • Kimberly: there could be a particular breakout group that Ranjana and Valerio could attend to discuss

New GAF 2.2 file

  • Kimberly has reviewed and sent feedback to Michael P
  • Valerio would like to stay in the loop to test the new files

Data mining tool comparison sheet