GMOD Evo Hackathon

Proposal for GMOD NESCent hackathon

NESCent has funds to support a certain number of hackathons every year. We are proposing a GMOD hackathon for June 2010. It would have a focus on extending GMOD for evolutionary biology, and would probably propose funding for 10-15 attendees. Proposals are reviewed on a competitive basis.

Organizing Committee

• Sheldon McKay
• Scott Cain
• Nicole Washington
• Robert Buels
• Hilmar Lapp

Proposed Topics

• Alignment metadata
• Population diversity support for chado and associated application connectivity (a la GDPDM)
• Evolutionary phenotype data in chado
• GBrowse_syn compatibility with SAM data
• Chado change management, release process, schema versioning
• handling pangenomes
• integration with the GO consortium's PAINT project to infer GO terms from the annotations associated with nodes in phylogenetic trees

Proposed Dates

June 7-11, 2010

Second conference call, 5PM EST Feb. 22, 2010

Agenda

Please add/change items.

• Focused on getting the proposal written.
• Discuss prior white papers:
  • Database Interop Hackathon
  • Phyloinformatics VoCamp
• Identify key elements of the GMOD evo hackathon whitepaper
• Assign tasks to be completed before next call.

Minutes

See Feb 22, 2010 minutes

Third conference call, 2PM EST Mar 17, 2010

Agenda

Please add/change items.

• Focused on getting the proposal written.
  • clarify metadata issues
• Dole out responsibilities

Minutes

See Mar 17, 2010 minutes

Third conference call, 5PM EST Apr 5, 2010

See Apr 5, 2010 minutes