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January 7, 2016

SAB 2016

  • Schedule for Caltech talks:
    • SAB wiki: http://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/2016_Advisory_Board_Meeting#Organisation_of_SAB_talks
    • Mary Ann, Chris, and Ranjana will discuss how to condense and streamline a presentation on community curation
    • We should have a talk about LEGO curation and pathways; Kimberly happy to present
      • LEGO adoption can be made cross-MOD and encourage collaboration
    • Maybe move micropublication talk to the end of the day; it will generate a lot of discussion; will try earlier in the day, 5 min talk, 5 min discussion before longer discussion
    • Maybe include discussion of expression summary description in Gary Williams talk about large scale expression data and visualization

Expression summaries

  • We want to consolidate large-scale expression data into a human-readable summary
  • Would be good to consolidate large-scale and small-scale expression data
  • We will adapt anatomical expression data for the SObA graph in future

Phenotype form

  • Now on sandbox, allows for RNAi transgene data
  • Will finish up, write documentation and make live
  • Will continue to send out e-mail requests

E-Merge Tech outsourcing

  • Company called Chris asking if we would want them to curate for us
  • Website: http://www.e-mergeglobal.com/
  • Will send them some phenotype curation for some papers and ask them to curate new papers, as a pilot
  • They will give us a cost estimate after a free pilot
  • Will see if it is cost-effective; good to know what they charge

January 14, 2016

LEGO

  • Sent out slides for an overview talk of LEGO and the Noctua curation tool. (Kimberly)