LEGO March 7, 2016

Agenda

Bluejeans

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Software Updates

• Noctua features
• GAF/GPAD Output

Call Schedule and Model Rota

• Have weekly calls?
• Implement a rotation for presenting models?

Plans for Geneva Meetings

• BioCurator
• GO Meeting

Minutes

On call:

• Berkeley: Chris, Heiko, Seth, Suzi
• EBI: David OS
• FlyBase: Giulia, Helen
• MGI: David H
• OHSU: Dan
• USC: Paul
• WB: Kimberly

Software

• Some display fixes
• Changed format for endpoint between Noctua and TextpressoCentral (TPC)
  • Still need kick-out URLs from TPC
  • Add documentation/information describing connection between Noctua and TPC
• Broadcast system put in place

Call Schedule and Models Review

• Will now have a LEGO call every Monday
• Not everyone will be able to make the full call every week, but we'd like to have more frequent discussion
• Implement a rota for models review; include at least everyone who was at the Geneva meeting and would like to participate

Table Interface for Noctua

• David H and Kimberly will provide specs for a table-like interface for Noctua
• This may make some types and operations of annotation more efficient and will also be useful for doing more conventional GO annotation using Noctua
• Think about how much the table form should follow the annoton model and what that means for evidence, etc.

Meetings - Geneva

• Send Paul T. any thoughts on what to present in the LEGO/Noctua talk at BioCurator next month and also wrt conducting a LEGO workshop at the GO meeting

Models Demarcation

• What defines a model? Where should they start and end? Can different views of a process be included in the same model?
• Right now, there aren't hard and fast rules about how we define a model
• In practice, a single model can be thought of as a unit of revision or curation
• For future UI, it would be advantageous to be able to collapse specific parts of a model for better viewing

Causal Reasoning Workshop

• David OS attended a causual reasoning workshop
• Some of the work discussed is quite related to LEGO
• Would be interesting to try to do a mapping between LEGO and some of the approaches discussed, especially wrt how GO models regulation
• See: https://github.com/COLOSYS/causal-workshop-ebi