2006-12-06 Conference Call Minutes

Conference Details

* Date of Call: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 (2006-12-06)

* Time of Call: 12:00:00 EDT = 16:00:00 UTC

* Skype Transcript 6 12 2006

* Duration: ~1 hour

* Convener: Alan

* Moderator: Gary

* Scribe : Andrea (joined later, had Skype problems)

* People on the call: Alan, Gary, Ranjani, Nigam, Matthias, Jonathan, Elgar, Ken, Joanne, Andrea, Emek

Draft Agenda

* Choose date, nominate convener, moderator, scribe for next meeting.

• Date: 10th January 2007

• Convener: Alan

• Moderator:

• Scribe:

* Proposal updates - [WWW] URI/CV - INOH Example

• Alan: http://biopaxwiki.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/UriCvNamespaceProposalJune2006/Inoh, will upload documentation on the wiki

* Governance - what are necessary tasks. How are they done now? How shall they be done in future? (see Tasks and Decisions)

* Grants/NCBO (Alan, Joanne)

• Status on grants

  • NIH grant (10k$ per year) available for two years (2 meetings, 2007/2008)

  • Additional grants applied by Sander (for workshops)

  • DoE grants: completed.

  • Matthias: applying for grants to work on BioPAX

  • Gary: should separate workshops grants from other grants grants accepted on behalf of the group (grants accepted by individuals for their work related to biopax)

• NCBO Grant

  • emek: good opportunity to solve issues related to the integration of CV and for the development of PaxTools

  • Joanne: should consider working on tools

  • Nigam: collaborating grants requirements: http://bioontology.org/process_content_guide.html http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-063.html

  • Emek Demir: unless there is conflict, the more grants we apply the better (increased possibility to get funds)

  • would chris sander be interested in this? how to coordinate with him if so?

  • 1st: what with grant will be for ? Than arrange meeting within next week.

  • Note: somebody is interested in the may deadline, somebody on the january one.

  • Joanne notes she has admin experience in grants with NCBO

* Barry Smith Workshop report (Alan et. al)

• http://biopaxwiki.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/SmithWorkshopPrecipitate

• Outcome:

  • Point of view of Barry Smith on ontology 'design'

  • a discussion about the relationship between biopax and obo that needs to happen

  • Need for 'learning workshops'

  • documentation of workshop costs will be put online

• [“BioPAX-OBO-Memorandum"]

  • Elgar will act as editor and will impose a deadline for individual contributions to the document

* Website updates (Andrea status)

• No updates

• Need to know technical resources of webresources

• See [“BioPAX web resources"] for details

• action item: someone (Gary?) to find out who is manager on biopax-admin