WormBase SAB Meeting

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WormBase Scientific Advisory Board Meeting

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California Institute of Technology, February 3rd - 4th 2011

Wednesday 2nd Feb – Pre-Meeting

(WormBase staff only)

6:30 – 18:00

Put right the World


Thursday 3rd Feb – Millikan Board Room

9:00 - 12:00:

  • Introduction: Where we are; Hinxton Reorganization - Paul Sternberg (15 min)
  • Build Process (+ models?) - Kevin Howe
  • Site usage; introduction to the new site (Todd; 30 minutes)
  • Tour of the new website (Abby; 30 minutes)
  • Process and pathway curation and display


DISCUSSION TOPICS

   Sequence curation manual versus RNA-seq; how do we automate creation of new isoforms
   Handling EST-based and fragmented genomes
   GBrowse: making it -seq friendly
   Interaction browser:  what shall we use?


BELOW IS still mostly 2008 SCHEDULE


Morning: Website, UI, Build, Orthology

  • Introduction: Hinxton Reorganization Paul Sternberg
  • New Website:
  • Genome Browser:
  • Build Process:
  • Comparative Analysis:
  • modENCODE & Chado migration


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

Topics:

C. elegans Manual curation and projects? - Paul D. (15 mins)

Large scale datasets (curation/modENCODE) - Gary W. (30 mins)



15:30 - Literature Curation

  • Ontology Annotator : Juancarlos Chan

Possible topics:

  • Gene Function Curation - concise descriptions (update on numbers, curation approach)
  • Collaboration with other Databases/Projects - automation (ARRA), BioGRID, GO

General Discussion

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

Friday 4th Feb – Millikan Board Room

8:30 – 9:00 Advisors breakfast

9:30 – 12:00 Advisors summary report

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – Discussion


Arrivals/Departures

Arrive

  • Sanger Crew - Pasadena Tuesday afternoon/evening?


Depart

  • Sanger Crew minus Michael - Pasadena Sunday before lunch?
  • Michael P. - Pasadena Friday PM?