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2010-05-11 Tuesday Meeting

Attending: Brian, Ola, Will, Jean-Marie, Christoph, Ingvar, Andrew, Jason, Josh, Melissa, Carlos - Has ASCB Timetable

Agenda

Remember: Agenda must be complete (with estimated times) on the day before the meeting. Any additions after that must go at the bottom (AOCB)

  1. Accepting minutes from last meeting

  2. Matters Arising (<10 mins)

    • Everyone: Review tickets, any new functionality in backlog
    • Andrew: Reply about find spots (something about cellprofiler?)
    • Andrew: Put up an ASCB times table
  3. Visiting EBI Speaker's Ingvar Lagerstedt & Christoph Best presentation (45 mins)

  4. ASCB Timetable

    Key deadlines - Full list available here

    Deadlines
    
    June 4
     - Application to qualify for booth assignment according to priority point system
     - 50% of booth fee mailed with application
     - Exhibitor Showcase application and deposit
     - Tutorial Program application
    
    July 29 - Regular Abstract Submission (talk or poster)
    
    Aug. 13
     - Balance of booth fee due
     - Deadline for 50-word product description to be included in the ASCB Annual Meeting Program
    
    Sept. 1 - Regular Abstract Submission (poster only)
    
    Sept. 17 - Exhibitor Service Kit (carpets/power/furniture)
    
    Oct. 1 - Hotel: Booking Deadline
    Oct. 2 - Hotel: Final rooming lists
    
    Oct. 7 - Attendee Early Registration (for discount)
    
    Oct. 14 - Late Abstract Submission
    
    Dec. 1 - Hotel: Changes/Cancellations
    
    Dec. 9 - Setup 1:00 pm, to 5:00 pm
    Dec. 10 - Setup 8:00 am, to 5:00 pm
    Dec. 11 - Setup 8:00 am, to 12:00 Noon
    Dec. 12 to 14 - Exhibit Hall 10:00 am to 4:30 pm
    Dec. 14 - Dismantling 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm
    Dec. 15 - Dismantling 7:00 am–12:00 Noon
    
  5. AOCB (<5 mins)

Notes

  • Last Meetings' Minutes approved

  • Matters arising

    • Brian still working on testing script (right after importer updates!)
    • Andrew responding to FindSpots
      • Writing to Ilya for a response?
      • Possible we'll get more detailed questions (segmentation, etc.)
    • ASCB page is up with timetable
  • EBI presentation

    • PDB, 65,000+ entries
    • EMDB curated database, paid to review the entries
    • doing segmenation 'by hand' using Amera or Imod
    • some entries are embargoed (up to 2 years)
    • simple (old, 2001) data entry form
    • goal (2012) of join EMDB and PDB
    • currently 'encouraging' people to enter both with cross-links
    • most important feature of atlas is downloading the maps and viewing locally
    • trying to do more dataharvesting by integrating with eman and other management system
    • appaling lack of image standards makes it a challege
    • currently only storing final results. more interesting now to store everything
    • Q: eman2 offers HDF5 A: but no agreement on what will be stored
    • looking to formalize a system using Ontologies
    • rich data: 40 classes, 64 pdb files, ... and where they should be display
  • EBI discussion

    • Q: health/status? community interaction, ...
      • community is usually quite positive
      • but the number of entries is going down
      • problems: metadata management (don't have the interesting metadata)
        • and difficulty in expressing the tomograms
        • currently neither the technology to record or display
        • stuck with one map per entry (more are variations of experiment)
        • Ingvar is working on displaying segmentations (color markups)
  • Ingvar demo of astexMoleculeViewer

    • 2 ways of visualizing segmentation
    • trying to fit your already known structure into the EM map
    • their format is based on the original mapman format with some header changes
    • needs some optimizations
    • java based - can be a rendering bean for web use
    • can match up pdb maps 'by hand' to build larger molecule structures (like chimera)
    • can combine atom coordinate data with pdb maps
    • working on importing other formats (ex. seger). Not perfect yet!
  • Actions

    • Everyone think about annotations for Thursday discussion (see nitpick thread)
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