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May 5, 2011

Citace upload

• Using current citace release (WS226) for Progress Report

Pictures

• Daniela did not actually curate ~7000 pictures this month ;)
• Script to fetch pictures automatically

Snehal starts next week

• working on phenotype curation
  • 90 genes ‚â• 10 publications
  • Of these 90, 54 with no annotated phenotype
  • 20,000 genes with RNAi data
• Concise Descriptions? May be appropriate
  • Prioritize by genes that currently have no description but have new papers
• Picture curation?
• Learning an ontology may be difficult, but she can stick to familiar material

Aldrin

• Karen, Raymond, Chris will talk to Todd
• Lineage browser for ontologies?
• Cell lineage browser? Capture multi-parentage issues

Ranjana - Preplanning WormBase side meetings at IWM?

Periodically sending someone to different sites

• E.g. Someone from Caltech goes to Hinxton, etc.

Practice Talks before International Worm Meeting

• on Monday before meeting