SDIWG:Meeting Minutes 20070216

Agenda: NCBC Joint Working Group Meeting

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Friday, February 16, 2007: 2:30 -- 3:30 PM EST

Please contact Peter Lyster for information lysterp@mail.nih.gov

TCon Agenda

• Roll Call/Note-taker (Floratos) (5 min)

• Minutes from most recent SDIWG tcon Nov. 17, 2006 (5 min)

• Progress in three working groups
  • Yellow Pages and Resourceome (Ivo Dinov, Daniel Rubin, Bill Lorensen, Jonathan Dugan, 15 min)
    • Yellow-pages (10 min)
    • Proposed set of Required/Minimal Resource Description Fields (5 min)
    • Optional and Resource-specific description fields (5 min)
    • Current Ontological Description of the NCBC Tool Yellow-Pages
    • What are the NCBC Resources? (Downloadable locally-executable SW tools, Web-services (including DBs))?
    • Has each center described 3-5 resources? (2 min)
    • Begin to think of integration of distributed NCBC Resources (ala XML Resource-Utilization Description, e.g., I/O/Server/Settings/Etc.).
    • NCBC iTools
      • V1 (v 0.1, 10/12/06)
      • V4 (v 0.4, 02/13/07)
    • Other Attempts to provide archives of SW and tool resources
    • Sugested Action Items for the YPR WG:
      • Each Center should ensure their SW repositories/archives on this page are correct
      • Each Center should ensure that they have 6-12 SW Resources described according to these templates
      • Test, comment and revise iTools. How does it compare with other similar efforts?
  • Scientific Ontologies (Zak Kohane, Mark Musen, and Suzi Lewis, 15 min)
  • Applications of Systems Biology, Modeling, and Analysis (Aris Floratos, Brian Athey, Russ Altman, 15 min)

• Action Items: Can leads let us know if/when there are tcons in the next month.

Minutes

Note taker: (Aris Floratos)

• Review of 11/17/06 minutes
  • Yellow Pages and Resourceome
  • Scientific Ontologies
  • Applications of Systems Biology, Modeling, and Analysis

Attendees

• Sherman, Lyster, Dinov (CCB/UCLA), Lorensen, Michael Montegut (NCBO project mgr), Weymouth, Floratos, Jennie Larkin (NHLBI), Zak & Susanne, Jenkins (NLM), Vivien Bonai, Athey, Kennedy, Mike Mendis, Karen Skinner/NIDA, Musen, Chris Mungall (NCBO), German Cavelier (NIMH), Suzanna Lewis
• Note-taker: [Suggested order of note takers for future meetings: Floratos (this one); Rubin; Jags; Dinov; Chueh; Sherman; Lorensen]