Phenote:Minutes: April 10, 2007

In attendance

Nicole Washington, Mark Gibson, Michael Ashburner, Suzi Lewis, Melissa Haendel, Gully Burns, Yvonne Bradford, David Sutherland, Jim Balhoff, Chris Mungall, Hilmar Lapp

Agenda

• Introductions - "what do you want to get out of this?"
• Set a regular meeting time
• Preference of format for future meetings
• What's coming up for phenote (Mark)

Minutes

Everyone present introduced themselves, where they were from, and what they were here for:

• Nicole Washington (NCBO), Chair, phenote developer and biologist<-->computer requirements interpreter
• Mark Gibson (NCBO), phenote developer
• Michael Ashburner (Flybase), OMIM and flybase curation
• Suzi Lewis (NCBO), project leader, making sure phenote meets everyone's needs
• Melissa Haendel (Zfin), curation, lead on annotation at zfin
• Gully Burns (USC), developing biocuration tools for NLP support.
• Yvonne Bradford (Zfin), OMIM curation for NCBO
• David Sutherland (Flybase), not ready for general curation, helping pave the way for fly phenotype curation
• Jim Balhoff (NESCent), collaboration with Monte and Paula, using PATO for evolutionary annotation; using parts of phenote (planned, not in development)
• Chris Mungall (NCBO), lurker
• Hilmar Lapp (NESCent), lurker

• Ashburner suggested that SOPs are needed for the following:
  • User documentation for annotation
  • Configuring the Phenote interface

• M.Gibson reported on features actively being developed for next release:
  • ability to have >2 differentia for post-composition.
  • allow for database backends (working with wormbase developer)
  • better versioning
  • gui configuration