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= 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_October_2019|October]]
 
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_November_2019|November]]
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== September 3, 2020 ==
  
[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_December_2019|December]]
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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
  
 +
=== New AFP datatype for curation status form (CSF)? ===
 +
* afp_othergenefunc (to capture gene function other than enzymatic activity)
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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
  
== December 5, 2019 ==
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=== GO annotation for description ===
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* Kimberly will look into 'male tail tip developement' terms for description
  
=== New interaction Venn diagram tool ===
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=== Migrate wobr1 server to AWS ===
* [https://staging.wormbase.org/species/c_elegans/gene/WBGene00000912#08--10 daf-16 interactions]
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* SOLR, WOBr, SObA, Enrichment analysis
* Venn diagram shows how various interactors have multiple interaction types with a common focus gene
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* Working with Sibyl on the process
* For a given selected gene set, you can copy to clipboard, download CSV, TSV, and link to enrichment analysis or WormMine
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* Will try migrating wobr1 first, as a test case
* Very nice! It would be great to have the gene list options here available wherever lists are provided in WormBase (Sibyl working on it)
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* May eventually move, for example, Tazendra
* Request: add SimpleMine as another link out (go to SimpleMine with the gene list prepopulated)
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** Will there be drawbacks to doing this?
* Request: could there be a toggle to include/exclude high-throughput interactions?
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** Can we regularly ssh into Tazendra on AWS without issue? Costs for transferring large files
* Request: The Venn circle labels sometimes get in the way of seeing the diagram; can they be moved to the side or possibly replace simply with single letters like "P", "G" and "R" for "physical", "genetic" and "regulatory" respectively? Might still need a legend?
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* Don't yet know the details of the costs, but we can try and keep track
* Request: Change the wording "Browse selection" to something like "View/analyze gene list"
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* We should move into WB or Alliance AWS instances (or Stanford)
* Where else could we implement a similar type of Venn diagram tool? Disease or phenotype annotations?
 
  
=== New round of phenotype requests ===
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=== WormBase talk at Boston Area Worm Meeting ===
* GMail really throttling email sending
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* https://www.umassmed.edu/ambroslab/meetings/bawm/
* Chris will reach out to Google/GMail to see if we can:
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* Meeting will be virtual on Zoom
** A) get a clear explanation about what their restrictions are and how they work and
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* Chris will give a talk September 23rd, 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific (probably first speaker but not sure)
** B) see if we can get a paid plan to help expedite the email process (see how much cost)
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* Send topic requests to Chris for the talk
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* Current topics:
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** Micropublications
 +
** 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
  
=== Aligning interaction data with GO and GO-CAM ===
 
* The Alliance interactions working group is considering proposing a greater alignment between GO interaction annotations (like "binding" annotations with IPI evidence codes, for example) and Alliance molecular interaction annotations
 
* Also, would like to propose a pipeline for possibly automatically generating GO-CAM annotations/networks based on inferences made from phenotype annotations, genetic interactions, regulatory interactions, and molecular interactions
 
* Much of this depends on genetic perturbation (e.g. allele/variant) annotation to effects, like loss-of-function or gain-of-function annotations
 
** Would be good to get a sense from other Alliance members the extent to which we could rely on the presence of such annotations
 
* Chris and Kimberly will meet to discuss further
 
  
=== Short SObA talk at Alliance meeting ===
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== September 10, 2020 ==
* Raymond prepared to give short talk on SObA to the Alliance group
 
  
=== Single cell data visualization tool ===
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=== GO GAF Files ===
* Eduardo will present to Paul's lab meeting tomorrow
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* WS278 GO GAF is using the new 2.2 file format
* Will discuss at Alliance expression working group pre-meeting
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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]
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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)
 +
* 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)
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*Will be some consolidation of disease data possibly for WS279 FTP files, implications for downstream tools--gene descriptions, WOBR, ??
  
== December 19, 2019 ==
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=== WormBase talk at Worcester Area Worm Meeting ===
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* Chris set to give talk on December 1st, 2020, via Zoom, 4pm (or 4:30pm) EST / 1pm Pacific
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* 30 minute slot; complementary to BAWM talk?
 +
* WormBase members can attend
  
=== AGR Face to Face meeting debrief ===
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=== WormBase talk at Boston Area Worm Meeting ===
* AGR data need to synchronize with MODs. AGR will have more frequent releases (monthly or every two months) so that it reflects the same data as MODs.
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* https://www.umassmed.edu/ambroslab/meetings/bawm/
* MODs have different curation policies. For example, BioGrid has predicted protein-protein interactions. AGR import them but WormBase does not have them. AGR needs to do its own prediction based on the current data, although BioGrid does a good job.
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* Chris will give a talk September 23rd (< 2 weeks), 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific (probably first speaker but not sure)
* The gene description curation tool developed by Juancarlos got good feedback. Juancarlos will add more function to visualize and compare annotations.
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* WormBase members can attend; Zoom link will be sent next Monday
* The gene description working group will enter maintenance mode.
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* Allele phenotype WG will start to the AGR allele page.
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=== Worm Anatomy Ontology Fixes ===
* SimpleMine vs intermine: Wen argues that there is no conflict. It is like 7-Eleven vs. Walmart (and Biomart is like Target ...)
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* Raymond working on addressing warnings and errors (missing definitions, duplicate labels, duplicate definitions)
* High-throughput expression: Most of MODs have zero curation manpower thus they prefer to outsource to Express Atlas or GEO unless future grants prioritize curation on high-throughput. Expression Atlas regard worm as a low priority so they may not do much for the worm.
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* Assessing the best way to address them
* Software development: focus on AGR instead of MODs. SAB hopes all MODs to retire their features to turn more users to AGR.
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* Would be good to be able to automate some edits; options:
* WormBase should direct all links of orthologs to AGR. Currently, orthologs are pointed to a WormBase page with no content. Wen will create a github ticket for the web team to make the changes.
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** Use OWL API (need someone proficient in coding with OWL API)
* Paper triage working group: It will be good if MODs can share their paper sources. Karen, Michael Mueller, and Kimberly will be involved in this WG.  
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** Convert to OBO, programmatically edit, convert back to OWL?
* Working Groups need more cross-talks, for example, GO and gene description are related.  
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** Use Cellfie plugin for Protege?
* SoBA got positive feedback. Some groups want to use it to compare two-gene curations, as well as the enrichment analysis.  
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** Should discuss with Nico once we have a sense as to what changes need to be made
* Non-coding RNA: Paul Sternberg will contact Frank Slack to see what they need for curation.
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=== Dead Variations in Postgres ===
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* 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
 +
 
 +
 
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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
 +
* 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 ===
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* 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 ===
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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