Manager Call 2018-12-19
Agenda
Moving to weekly meetings for managers
Starting January
Abstract for biocuration
(Abstracts must be submitted by December 21, 2018)? Moving towards a common shared curation community. No-one volunteering to steer right now. Technical updates or curation-centric?
- Who is attending ISB (Please add here)?
- Suzi A
- Kimberly VA
Annual report
- Reports are to be submitted in the Google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qoT_E4R_rrkEpDwjqtyfvqrgt66v5Xp9
- Next: Paul and Pascale to draft the overall report using some materials from individual reports.
Next few weeks
- Alliance grant due Jan 31; Xmas holidays coming up
- What is the impact on the work that people can do on GO? (esp: Chris, Seth, Kimberly, David - anyone else directly involved in Alliance and also key in GO?)
- We need to be aware of this.
- Pascale away until Feb 4th.
Outreach: GO webinars
Suggestion from PIs + follow discussion Kimberly, David, Pascale
- Monthly
- Time to be defined
- One GO user/GO tool developer would present ~30 minutes + some discussion
- Goal is to be more in touch with our users, perhaps also help drive decisions as we hear more specific use cases
Outreach proposal: reddit
GO-themed "Ask me anything" on Reddit, maybe during the GO meetings when everyone's captive. Similar to these
- https://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics/comments/3wzj69/i_help_companies_hire_bioinformaticians_i_write/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics/comments/7vux4w/i_work_for_ensembl_ama/
Outreach: External Group contact
Should be Suzi A.
- OBO Foundry
- FAIRsharing
- ...any other groups??
Follow up on priorities
- Release tasks update
- GO website migration:
- Status
- What will happen with the help desk?
- Noctua+GO-CAM repository: Moving existing non-GO-CAM annotations to GO central: Jim, Ben, Chris, Seth: strategy
- Created a project: https://github.com/orgs/geneontology/projects/34
Next hackathon
Early February in LA?
Proposed aims (David, Kimberly, Pascale):
- import of legacy annotations & GP2term relations
- also for importing legacy annotations - mapping existing annotation extensions to GO-CAM models
- We will follow up by email, but it is looking like late February.
Minutes
- On call: Chris, David, Huaiyu, Judy, Kimberly, Pascale, Seth, Suzi L., Suzy A.
Meeting schedule
- Will move to weekly meetings starting in January
- Calls will be focused on discussion of each project's status and priorities
- Also include communication from the PI call about decisions, priorities
- Pascale will create rota for Agenda and Minutes for 2019
ISB - April, 2019
- Suzy A will submit for new GO website for outreach session (poster)
- Laurent-Philippe will submit an abstract for GO-CAM (talk)
Annual Progress Report
- Pascale is trying to collate everything from the individual reports
- PIs will now take charge of writing the final report
Alliance Grant Renewal
- 5-yr proposal, due January 25th
- PIs may be less available during January, but otherwise GO efforts should not be affected
Outreach
- GO webinars
- Invite a GO user and/or tool developer to give a consortium-wide webinar
- GO should also reach out and give seminars/webinars to our users