Managers 13Sept06

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Present: Michael Ashburner, Judy Blake, Mike Cherry, Rex Chisholm, Jennifer Clark, Midori Harris, David Hill, Eurie Hong, Suzi Lewis, Chris Mungall

Minutes: Eurie

Scientific Advisory Board Meeting Debriefing

We discussed our impressions of take home messages from the SAB meeting. If any of the managers would like a copy of the pink sheets, they can get a hard copy.

Metrics

One of the major messages conveyed by the SAB was the need for metrics. We have developed metrics covering the breadth and depth of the Reference Genome effort and the SAB encouraged defining metrics for ontology development as well as define progress and activities in terms of dollar amounts. Judy mentioned that Peter Good has indiciated that NIH and NHGRI are moving towards measurable contracts. Although some types of financially based metrics may be too extreme, Suzi pointed out that we do need to consider the money aspect.

David mentioned that he has been thinking about how to define metrics for the ontologies. It can be difficult and sometimes not appropriate to define the quality of the ontology using numbers but there are some things you can measure in the ontologies:

  • number of terms
  • number of relationships
  • average relationship per term
  • avaerage depth of each tree