WormBase-Caltech Weekly Calls
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2012 Meetings
August 2, 2012
Grant updates
- Topics
- Diseases
- Worm Phenotype ontology; attempt applying to other species? Some has been done already (e.g. C. briggsae)
- Benefit of curating phenotypes in other species? Particularly useful for genes not in C. elegans, for example
- Textpresso for nematodes
- >5000 papers now
- Complete set of papers by ~Labor Day
- Anatomy ontology
- Anatomy page is hub for data
- Upcoming challenge - male/female/hermaphrodite divergence
- Anatomy with respect to life stage
- Multiple species
- [| Uberon] framework can be adapted for multiple species
- Suggestions for future
- Better integration across data types
- How the OA can evolve and what it can be used for?