WormBase-Caltech Weekly Calls August 2021

August 5, 2021

Not clear what the problem was, but Sibyl transferred to new machine and now it works
Could be a firewall issue somewhere but it isn't clear

We would like to show an expression level graph on each gene page. CeNGEN prefers something similar to what we have for FPKM expression.
Sibyl drafted a prototype that is 2D so that it solves the issue of fitting into one page width while making highly expressing cells prominent.

Caltech IMSS is blocking some WB IP addresses likely from nefarious actors on AWS, thereby breaking WB links to Caltech-hosted CGIs
Although WB uses dedicated AWS IPs, those some how still got on a black list.
The ultimate solution is to move all services answering WB queries to AWS, so there is no extr-AWS network traffic.
Could non-SObA CGIs move to different servers (AWS?)?
SObA is resource intensive when new releases are being built but otherwise memory requirements can be tuned (affecting caching) for serving queries. We can use a local machine for building a release and then transfer the built database to a live machine in the cloud. This approach also alleviates some sysadmin load for Caltech.

Clustering similar words in word clouds
Counter with the number of objects already curated by WB for papers returned by searches