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2017 Meetings

Use for all literature curation in future?
We would need to see how it could be used for all data types
We would also want a full-time developer working on Noctua; maybe bring Juancarlos into the project

SPELL related data - how to deal with?
- Data: recalculated, mapping, results dependent on SPELL
- Analysis (clustering tool): clunky, freezes w/limited resources
Wen will work with Juancarlos to generate a SimpleMine-like tool for downloading data sets
Wen has to remove log files to make space on machine
~360 data sets
Current virtual machine has 10G memory; is becoming limiting
SPELL has lots of dependencies; difficult to account for them all when building SPELL
Would be good if we could setup a new (larger) virtual machine to run SPELL; how much time/resources do we want to spend on it?

Considering sending requests to only one person, first author when have info
This should allow for more emails to be sent out per week, and more submissions, even if we maintain the 16% response rate
Chris will work with Juancarlos once he's back from vacation
What's next data type? Interactions? Site of action? Anatomy?
What's required for site of action? Phenotype, gene, cell/tissue where gene is introduced or removed
Can send requests to lab heads to fill in phenotype info for alleles from their lab

Some attributes of alleles are currently only assigned in the context of a phenotype annotation
Many times these attributes are reported independently of a phenotype experiment
It would be good to have a mechanism to curate these attributes to alleles independent of phenotype curation
As far as modeling goes I (Chris) had intended to do dump these attributes directly into the ?Variation object like this:

?Variation   Null  ?Phenotype_experiment

This would allow us to always point to a ?Phenotype_experiment object as a container of evidence, but if we don't always have a ?Phenotype_experiment object to point to then maybe a better approach is just to reference the paper like this:

?Variation  Null  ?Paper

This would require a separate curation pipeline from phenotype to capture these attributes; will discuss more with Mary Ann when she's back from vacation

Originally we sent email requests independently of Author First Pass pipeline emails
Now a link to phenotype form is being included in Author First Pass emails, and we're putting a hold on all new email requests to corresponding author for one month
I (Chris) am considering returning to original approach of sending requests independently of AFP, to see if we can get response rate up at all