2022-01-21 - Boston/Bristol meeting

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Agenda

• Tom Palmer (@remlapmot) has been kindly making improvements to various packages to prepare for submission to Bioconductor
  • avoid lazy load
  • github dependencies not allowed - to make decisions on a case by case basis about what to do with these
  • Dicussed that genetics.binaRies should be deprecated and use containers instead - this will help with github actions etc too.
  • New recruit to potentially liaise with other developers to integrate work into the fold
• Vince mentioned NSF XSEDE Open Storage Network https://www.openstoragenetwork.org/motivation/
  • Vince to put us in touch with their colleague who works extensively on db and API development
  • Discussed that free tier storage is likely to not be performant due to latency, but migrating from elasticsearch to e.g. hail / parquet a worthwhile approach
  • Robert to make contact with elixir
• We’ve started the process of recruiting volunteers for the ontology mapping project
  • Ideally we would provide some form of training about how ontologies work. Rafael to look at this
  • Allow multiple 'broad' mappings (but only a single direct mapping)

Previous notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wDX8dcQFtqg32xPkjgr5g1h1fkB5WMXztOFoMg-u_0A/edit