WormBase SAB Meeting

2011 Scientific Advisory Board Meeting

California Institute of Technology, February 3-4, 2011

Wednesday 21st May – Pre-meeting (WormBase staff only)

6:30 – 18:00 Put right the World Thursday 3rd May – Millikan Board Room

BELOW IS 2008 SCHEDULE 9:00 - 12:00:

Website, UI, Build, Orthology

   * Introduction: Hinxton Reorganization Paul Sternberg 
   * New Website: Todd Harris (slides)
   * Genome Browser       (slides)
   * Build Process:  (slides)
   * Comparative Analysis:  (slides)
   * modENCODE & Chado migration (slides) 
   WormMart, wormMine

13:00 – 15:30 Sequence curation and analysis, other nematodes

   * Introduction: John Spieth (slides)
   * Curation Tool: Gary Williams (slides)
   * Current methods and metrics: Paul Davis (slides)
   * Briggsae curation and SNPS: Darin Blasiar (slides)
   * Future curation: Anthony Rogers (slides)

15:30 - Literature Curation

   * New curation pipeline 

Microarray curation

     Textpresso-based Curation: Kimberly Van Auken (slides)
   * Overview;Phenotype Curation: Gary Schindelman (slides)
   * Generalizing Phenote: Juancarlos Chan (slides)
   * Genetics: Mary Ann Tuli (slides)
   * Cell-centric curation: Raymond Lee (slides)
   * Gene Regulation: Xioadong Wang (slides) 

General Discussion

   * Coordination among sites
   * Quality control
   * Outreach
   * Database migration community annotation 

Friday 4th February

8:00 – 9:00 Advisors breakfast

9:30 – 12:00 Advisors summary report