Web-apollo-meeting-2011-1-6

Status reports

• Gregg
  • Incorporation of CDS/UTR information to get it into the display. Not yet finished, but will be within the next few days.
  • Caching functionality (firebug report too?): Has deprecated as a priority as current solution is adequate. Speed is
  • Shifting focus to the user interface, getting up to speed now.
  • Adding some examples of the different UCSC data types
• Chris
  • JBrowse installation
  • Has anyone tried (using config file) view data from multiple sources in a single JBrowse instance?
    • Not yet ready, but would like it soon. Will work on it this week.
• Chris E.
  • Bovine assembly and annotation status: it's now out and available at NCBI (Baylor and UMaryland, 2 different assemblies). They use whatever assembly Ensembl uses and lift it over, and this is out soon.
  • Trellis can handle DAS1 and get it into JBrowse, but still have the multiple source issue
  • Honeybee: another month before compute results are available. UCSC is still on 2.0, but most current is 4.0.
  • A.I. - Suzi to contact them to ask about it, Gregg to schedule a visit.
• Ed
  • Current version of server features
  • Added some new editing features
  • Working on Chado write-back, should be done in the next week or two
• Mitch
  • Discussion of Operational Transformation, wave protocol, and the code
  • Having trouble with the release, but thinks he is on the last bug and will release ASAP.
  • Owes an email to CC

Topics

• John may be visiting next week on the 10th, we need to meet with him (Suzi to ping him to find out whether it's happening)
• Next meeting will be January 13, 2011

Questions for John

• How well does the wave technology scale? Can it handle a genome sized document?