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== March 4, 2021 ==
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== April 1, 2021 ==
  
=== Webinar Monday ===
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=== Antibodies ===
* Juancarlos can send a reminder email; he just needs the text for the body of the email message
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* Alignment of the antibody class to Alliance:
* Can we send the webinar reminder to WB staff? Cannot use staff@wormbase.org to register
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** Propose to move possible_pseudonym (192) and Other_animal (37) to remarks. Those tags are not currently used for curation.
* Raymond will try to remember to forward to staff
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*** Other animal is sometimes used for older annotations, e.g. authors say that the antibodies were raised both  in rats and rabbits. Standard practice would create 2 records, one for the rat antibody and one for the rabbit.
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*** Possible pseudonym was used when  a curator was not able to unambiguously assign a previous antibody to a record. (we have a Other name -synonym- tag to capture unambiguous ones). When moving to remarks we can keep a controlled vocabulary for easy future parsing, e.g. “possible_pseudonym:”
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** Antigen field: currently separated into Protein, peptide, and other_antigen (e.g.: homogenate of early C.elegans embryos, sperm). Propose to use just one antigen field to capture antigen info.
  
=== Neural Network (NN) evaluation ===
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All changes proposed above were approved by the group
* Kimberly (and other curators) looking through NN results
 
* Had previously prevented LOW scoring SVMs(?) from being sent to authors
 
* We need an agreed upon protocol for evaluation
 
* To avoid bias, we should randomly sample papers; usually will find negatives; how do we represent high, medium and low-scoring papers in the set without making curators review >> 100 papers?
 
* Michael will come up with protocol and send around list of papers for each data type (in Google Doc)
 
* Perhaps evaluation should happen on non-curated, newer papers
 
  
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=== textpress-dev clean up ===
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* Michael has asked curators to assess what they have on textpresso-dev as it will not be around forever :-(
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* is it okay to transfer data and files we want to keep to tazendra? and then to our own individual machines?
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* Direct access may be possible via Caltech VPN
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* Do we want to move content to AWS? May be complicated; it is still easy and cheap to maintain local file systems/machines
  
== March 11, 2021 ==
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=== Braun servers ===
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* 3 servers stored in Braun server room; is there a new contact person for accessing these servers?
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* Mike Miranda replacement just getting settled; Paul will find out who is managing the server room and let Raymond know
  
=== Spreadsheet for Data not in ACEDB ===
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=== Citace upload ===
* Magdalena/Hinxton would like to know how much data at Caltech doesn't get into ACEDB
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* Next Friday, April 9th, by end of the day
* Sheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VcFykdyBcoMBvYliem8tnch5Q2VDMImL6EqlcEBCU-s/edit?usp=sharing
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* Wen will contact Paul Davis for the frozen WS280 models file
* We want to pull everything into the Alliance eventually, but maybe not everything needs to be harmonized
 
* We should evaluate existing forms and fields/tables for whether they need to be harmonized or can stay as is
 
  
=== CeNGEN To Dos ===
 
* Daniela, Wen, Valerio, Eduardo, Raymond met with CeNGEN
 
* Want to add JBrowse track for promoters(?)
 
* Three things:
 
** CeNGEN will provide histograms that we can put on each gene page, similar to modENCODE plots (do they provide static images or data that we process and display as histograms?) Both are possible (Raymond)
 
** Their tool can assess "enriched" genes by cell type (enriched vs. neurons or vs. all cell types; not just housekeeping genes); these can be sent to WB -> SObA and enrichment analysis
 
** We will link to the CeNGEN homepage wherever appropriate
 
* All else will depend on Eduardo's tools for single cell expression data
 
* Raymond will be WB point person to communicate with CeNGEN
 
* Display solutions can be used for Alliance single-cell data in general
 
* May want to consider future use cases, e.g. mutant-vs-WT expression, chemical/drug-induced expression, etc.
 
  
=== Chen building access ===
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== April 8, 2021 ==
* You'll need an ID with RFID? (Yes, 20 year old IDs don't work)
 
* help.caltech.edu -> request type Card Office
 
* It will be ready and wait for you at the Reddoor cafe.
 
  
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=== Braun server outage ===
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* Raymond fixed; now Spica, wobr and wobr2 are back up
  
== March 18, 2021 ==
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=== Textpresso API ===
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* Was down yesterday affecting WormiCloud; Michael has fixed
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* Valerio will learn how to manage the API for the future
  
=== Caltech Alliance source? ===
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=== Grant opportunities ===
* Could some data (like paper class/data) go to the Alliance directly from Caltech? Could be quicker and more efficient
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* Possibilities to apply for supplements
* Data would no longer be coming from the "Single Source of Truth" for WB data (i.e. ACEDB/Datomic)
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* May 15th deadline
* WB paper data would be ahead of the ACEDB paper data
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* Druggable genome project
* Kimberly will reach out to Magdalena et al. to propose
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** Pharos: https://pharos.nih.gov/
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** could we contribute?
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* Visualization, tools, etc.
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* Automated person descriptions?
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* Automated descriptions for proteins, ion channels, druggable targets, etc.?
  
=== CITAce upload ===
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=== New WS280 ONTOLOGY FTP directory ===
* Upload to Hinxton on April 19 (? Friday April 16th ?)
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* Changes requested here: https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/7900
* Upload to CITace for Wen on Friday before (April 9th) by end of the day
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* Here's the FTP URL: ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/releases/WS280/ONTOLOGY/
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* Known issues (Chris will report):
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** Ontology files are provided as ".gaf" in addition to ".obo"; we need to remove the ".gaf" OBO files
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** Some files are duplicated and/or have inappropriate file extensions
  
=== Alliance biological working groups priority ===
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=== Odd characters in Postgres ===
* Keep working on harmonization and LinkML models for data types
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* Daniela and Juancarlos discovered some errors with respect to special characters pasted into the OA
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* Daniela would like to automatically pull in micropublication text (e.g. figure captions) into Postgres
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* We would need an automated way to convert special characters, like degree symbols ° into html unicode \&deg\;
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* Juancarlos and Valerio will look into possibly switching from a Perl module to a Python module to handle special characters

Revision as of 19:05, 8 April 2021

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April 1, 2021

Antibodies

  • Alignment of the antibody class to Alliance:
    • Propose to move possible_pseudonym (192) and Other_animal (37) to remarks. Those tags are not currently used for curation.
      • Other animal is sometimes used for older annotations, e.g. authors say that the antibodies were raised both in rats and rabbits. Standard practice would create 2 records, one for the rat antibody and one for the rabbit.
      • Possible pseudonym was used when a curator was not able to unambiguously assign a previous antibody to a record. (we have a Other name -synonym- tag to capture unambiguous ones). When moving to remarks we can keep a controlled vocabulary for easy future parsing, e.g. “possible_pseudonym:”
    • Antigen field: currently separated into Protein, peptide, and other_antigen (e.g.: homogenate of early C.elegans embryos, sperm). Propose to use just one antigen field to capture antigen info.

All changes proposed above were approved by the group

textpress-dev clean up

  • Michael has asked curators to assess what they have on textpresso-dev as it will not be around forever :-(
  • is it okay to transfer data and files we want to keep to tazendra? and then to our own individual machines?
  • Direct access may be possible via Caltech VPN
  • Do we want to move content to AWS? May be complicated; it is still easy and cheap to maintain local file systems/machines

Braun servers

  • 3 servers stored in Braun server room; is there a new contact person for accessing these servers?
  • Mike Miranda replacement just getting settled; Paul will find out who is managing the server room and let Raymond know

Citace upload

  • Next Friday, April 9th, by end of the day
  • Wen will contact Paul Davis for the frozen WS280 models file


April 8, 2021

Braun server outage

  • Raymond fixed; now Spica, wobr and wobr2 are back up

Textpresso API

  • Was down yesterday affecting WormiCloud; Michael has fixed
  • Valerio will learn how to manage the API for the future

Grant opportunities

  • Possibilities to apply for supplements
  • May 15th deadline
  • Druggable genome project
  • Visualization, tools, etc.
  • Automated person descriptions?
  • Automated descriptions for proteins, ion channels, druggable targets, etc.?

New WS280 ONTOLOGY FTP directory

Odd characters in Postgres

  • Daniela and Juancarlos discovered some errors with respect to special characters pasted into the OA
  • Daniela would like to automatically pull in micropublication text (e.g. figure captions) into Postgres
  • We would need an automated way to convert special characters, like degree symbols ° into html unicode \&deg\;
  • Juancarlos and Valerio will look into possibly switching from a Perl module to a Python module to handle special characters