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= 2020 Meetings =
 
= 2020 Meetings =
  
== January 9, 2020 ==
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_January_2020|January]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_February_2020|February]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_March_2020|March]]
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_April_2020|April]]
  
=== Phenotype Curation Requests ===
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_May_2020|May]]
* 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_June_2020|June]]
* 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_July_2020|July]]
* 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 ===
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[[WormBase-Caltech_Weekly_Calls_August_2020|August]]
* 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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== September 3, 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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=== WS279 Citace upload ===
* Have a backlog; Paul D is assigned but has been overwhelmed
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* September 25
* Have asserted this as a priority
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* Local CIT upload (to Wen) Tuesday September 22 by 10am Pacific
* 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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=== New AFP datatype for curation status form (CSF)? ===
* Asia (Taipei) meeting, Paul S going
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* afp_othergenefunc (to capture gene function other than enzymatic activity)
* Aging meeting, Wen could go? (Wen: I can ask if they provide a timeslot for oral presentation.)
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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
* TAGC in April, Chris going
 
  
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=== GO annotation for description ===
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* Kimberly will look into 'male tail tip developement' terms for description
  
== January 16, 2020 ==
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=== Migrate wobr1 server to AWS ===
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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
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* We should move into WB or Alliance AWS instances (or Stanford)
  
=== Variation names ===
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=== WormBase talk at Boston Area Worm Meeting ===
* 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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* https://www.umassmed.edu/ambroslab/meetings/bawm/
* Daniela asked Juancarlos to modify the temporary variation ID form to allow up to 4 letters instead of 3.
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* Meeting will be virtual on Zoom
* Form here: http://tazendra.caltech.edu/~azurebrd/cgi-bin/forms/generic.cgi?action=TempVariationObo
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* Chris will give a talk September 23rd, 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific (probably first speaker but not sure)
* 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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* 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
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== September 10, 2020 ==
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=== GO GAF Files ===
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* WS278 GO GAF is using the new 2.2 file format
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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)
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* Implications for gene descriptions, but what about other tools, applications at WB?
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* Some errors in the current WS278 GAF, but will get fixed soon
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** Impacts gene descriptions for WS278, so using WS277 for now; will be OK once source GAF is fixed
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===Disease files on FTP===
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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)
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*Will be some consolidation of disease data possibly for WS279 FTP files, implications for downstream tools--gene descriptions, WOBR, ??
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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?
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* WormBase members can attend
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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
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* Would be good to be able to automate some edits; options:
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** 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
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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
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* Noticed that many transgene names were being included, which can result in false positives for the categories
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* Looking at Postgres table "obo_data_variation", there are ~100,000 entries, ~40,000 with status "Dead" and ~60,000 with status "Live"
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* Trying to determine the history of the "Dead" variations, where most of the transgene names are coming from
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* May still want to include "Dead" variations/alleles in Textpresso category for historical reasons
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* We could use pattern matching to filter out transgene names
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* 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 ===
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* Wen is reviewing species coming from CIT and will send individual curators lists of species that need correction
  
 
=== Webinars ===
 
=== Webinars ===
* During an AFP call we discussed the possibility to have webinars for authors to guide them through the form.
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* We could perform a general WormBase webinar to cover all of WormBase, maybe one hour long
* Is having a webinar series something WB is interested in doing?
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* Allow 20-30 minutes for discussion? Can allow interruptions but plan for one hour
** we will start with an AFP/micropub webinar and will take it from there based on interest and attendance
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* Follow up with more specific webinars in following months: JBrowse, WormMine, Micropublication, AFP, Textpresso Central, Ontology browser & Enrichment tools, SPELL, ParaSite BioMart
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* Chris and Wen can discuss how to setup
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* Should we have people register? Maybe
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* 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
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* Will discuss GAF format changes, etc.
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* Ranjana: should she and Valerio attend to learn about GO changes that affect the gene descriptions pipeline?
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** Kimberly: there could be a particular breakout group that Ranjana and Valerio could attend to discuss
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=== New GAF 2.2 file ===
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* Kimberly has reviewed and sent feedback to Michael P
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* Valerio would like to stay in the loop to test the new files
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=== 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