SWUG:Meeting 2010 09 28
Conference call details: New GOC conference call numbers:
US: 1 866 953 9688 Outside US: UK 0808 238 6001 pin: 801561
Topics
- AmiGO_1_8 Release
- Estimated release time
- Release Schedule for AmiGO_1_9
- Production_and_GO_Admin#Switch to load-qfo-seqs.pl
- Existing sequence loading is slow and memory intensive
- New script depends on QFO fasta files provided by EBI
- ~60 genomes, subsumes RefG set
- also takes care of ID mapping / gp2protein
- Current issues:
- latest dump excludes DB prefixes
- ACTION: Sven, report back
- Software_Group_2010_Future_Plans - any questions arising from presentation at GO meeting
- increased emphasis on reuse
- Transition to OWL
- Schema_Overhaul
- ARRA Funding
- Berkeley - one hire 1 yr, starting October. Stanford: ?
- Proposed: Berkeley hire will focus on ontology related db elements, Stanford hire on annotations
- New architecture: java, use of OWLAPI for ontologies
- Dual db strategy: "gold", "lead" - bulk loading, less normalized schema, optimized for db loading and queries
- Exploration of non-relational technology: SOLR, triplestores, QuickGO indexes
- Emphasis on expressivity, being prepared for next 5-6 years
Idea: have SGD ARRA developer work on MART/Mine for GO? Use case: give all mammalian genes with annotations to term X