Manager Call 2016-12-07

Bluejeans URL

• https://bluejeans.com/588333403

Agenda: David Hill

Minutes: Paola Roncaglia

Present: Paola, David, Kimberly, Suzi, Moni, Judy, Paul T, Huaiyu, Chris

Regrets: Melanie, Pascale

Agenda

Old Business

Annotation Tools

ToDo: Send Paul contact info for Pathway Tools to be added to registry at Elixir (Melanie did this? MC: yes, done :)).

• Note that we also do mention other tools on our FAQ page for performing enrichment analyses for species not included in the drop-down list on the website
  • http://geneontology.org/faq/how-can-i-do-term-enrichment-analysis-species-not-present-list-amigo

- Proposal (Paola): general recommendation for endorsing software for use of GOC resources should be that at least one of the members of GOC has used it.
- ToDo: Make the FAQ (http://geneontology.org/faq/how-can-i-do-term-enrichment-analysis-species-not-present-list-amigo) match what’s on the Enrichment Analysis Help Page at http://geneontology.org/page/go-enrichment-analysis

(From last week's Ontology meeting)PI discussion of next months' EBI-GO work plan

End of subcontract with EBI of February 2017 - influences work of EBI-GO (DOS, Paola, Melanie) team. Helen has proposed that EBI-GO will step off the GO rotas (GH, TG, Helpdesk) starting December 12th to allow wrap-up of existing tickets concomitantly with other tasks. David Hill (as Ontology Lead ) and GO PIs will discuss further with Helen.

Others funded by GOC are interested in training and joining Ontology Dev team - training being planned.

Note that TAIR's subcontract also ends at the end of Feb. 2017. TAIR/Phoenix plans to scale back involvement in day to day, non-plant related ontology work after March 1, 2017, stepping off the GH/TG rota, and scaling back GO Helpdesk participation to 2x/year.

2016 Year-End Progress Reports

- ToDo: create Google Doc per institution, and also a separate document where all efforts will be combined and summarized.
- As we ask institutions to prepare their individual documents, ask them to follow a template. Suzi will prepare the templates and add them to this directory: 
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B8kRPmmvPJU3SzNuZ0YzVVJEOWc

Some docs are already being modified on the page. Right now, there is a draft of annotation by Kimberly and DavidH and a single doc that has ontology development in it by Melanie and DavidH. Melanie will be adding the full EBI ontology parts to that doc.

New Business

Build Failures

• Recently, it seems like almost every time we make a commit something in one of the pipelines fails. What's going on?

Food for thought

• What is the biggest challenge for ontology development?
• What is the biggest challenge for annotation?
• What tool is most urgently needed?
  • Annotation-visualization tools and tools for batch requests (DavidH)
  • Long term, a new breed of enrichment tools that utilize the OWL representation of annotations.(DavidH)
• How can we be consumers and users of GO ourselves? (eat our own dog food?)
  • I have begun trying to cultivate relationships with researchers here to work with them as they use GO. As a result, I have recently been playing around with enrichment tools and other tools on the GO site.(DavidH)

- Suzi: suggestion to set up main and large-scope goals for the year. Addressing the questions in the agenda. Suzi requests that everyone thinks of these questions. 
-- DavidH and Kimbery have begun collecting things in Github Projects. The ontology group has begun using Github projects to track ontology conference calls. We have also set up a project for the first quarter of 2017 that includes all github tickets that are labeled as mini-projects as proposals for things to complete. 
- Paul suggests that these goals should be organized on the GOC Projects page at https://github.com/orgs/geneontology/projects