Managers 11Mar09
Agenda/chair: Midori
Minutes: Jen
Present:
Apologies:
Action items from Feb 25
- Jen: continue working with Doug (and occasionally Judy) to set up phone and video for the Oregon GOC meeting.
- Pascale: Organize conference call on usage of tricky GO terms; include ontology editors and annotators (both ref gen and broader annotation list).
- Jane: Wikipedia Gene Ontology page on Web Presence agenda.
- Judy: Send annotation column 16 & 17 documentation to managers for approval.
- Pascale, Chris: Finish and circulate gp2protein file documentation. Action item.
Discussion items
- Invitation to contribute book chapter on ontologies for "Knowledge-Based Bioinformatics: From Analysis to Interpretation" (Marco Ramoni and Gil Alterovitz, eds)
- David suggested that he, Tanya, and Chris might do something on the regulates and/or QC work they've been doing.
- Jen - funding ideas
1) I am not currently on any particular grant, which means I am getting quite short contracts at the EBI. Also in any case I will have to leave the EBI in three years or less. In the longer term I would be very interested to look at applying for funding myself to continue working as an OBO-Edit developer outside the EBI, perhaps at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. Would people be happy for me to start looking into this as an option? Does anybody have any idea of where I would get such funding?
2) A computer scientist friend of mine called Satnam Singh (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) is possibly interested to collaborate on speeding up incremental reasoning in OBO-Edit. If we could get incremental reasoning fast enough that we could have it turned on during ontology editing, then this would be a huge advantage. Would you be happy for me to go ahead and explain the problem to him, to see if he is interested to pursue this further? This collaboration might also present an avenue for solving my funding problem, as the reserch institute has a funding programme specifically to support this kind of collaboration (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/rpp/). Clearly there would have to be very solid agreements about the work remaining open source, and in the public domain, but I could discuss this aspect with him and report back.
Action items
Next call March 25th.