2006-01-11 Conference Call

Short items:

Development status update
1. Official release of BioPAX Level 2 v1.0 (Gary)
  - Location of release package, for sanity check
  - Documentation changes proposed by Alan
Grant status (Gary)
F2F Survey (Alan)
HCLS BioPAX Talk (Joanne,Alan)
Quick Poll: Move to biweekly teleconferences? (Alan)

Discussions:

Workplan/proposed way forward (Emek and Alan)
1. BioPAX 2.5/3.0 workgroup proposal as alternative to DX/SW. See here
2. Alan Ruttenberg/Re-expressing a use case
3. Manchester: At the Japan F2F it was proposed that that a group of BioPAX members interested in learning OWL and bringing BioPAX into conformance with OWL semantics visit the computer science group at Manchester, where there is significant expertise in OWL modeling and description logics. Alan Rector has expressed a willingness to conduct such a session in Q1. A number of working group members have expressed interest in participating. We need to start planning for such a trip, and in particular, start to arrange funding.
Motion to endorse BioPAX Governance. Discussion here
biopax.org web pages (Alan): The biopax.org web site increasingly becomes stale, as more and more activity happens on the wiki. In addition, as there is wider involvment on the wiki, that site becomes more evidently an expression of public face that the MSKCC group want to put on the BioPAX efforts, as it's content is entirely determined by that group. Accordingly I propose that biopax.org be redirected to biopaxwiki.org and that if the MSKCC group wishes to retain this forum that they move it to http://cbio.mskcc.org/biopax/ and edit the site to reflect this change.

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