[Gmod-help] Re: [Heliconiusdb-devel] Chado Natural Diversity Working Group

[W. Owen McMillan]

Cool.  I'm in Panama now at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
STRI, but will be in NC next week.  Glad to see things are moving forward.

On another note, I'm STRI's member of an SI bioinformatics and computational
working group.  The Smithsonian needs to get involved in this and perhaps
there is some good opportunities for collaboration.  The new UnderSecretary
for Science (Eva Pell) is going from Penn State and she has apparently made
it a Bioinformatics a priority.

Owen


On 1/29/10 6:37 PM, "Dave Clements, GMOD Help Desk" <help at gmod.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> The Chado Natural Diversity Working Group was at PAG and the January
> GMOD meeting.  This working group is described at:
>   http://gmod.org/wiki/Chado_Natural_Diversity_Module_Working_Group
> 
> The discussions we've had so far are summarized at:
>   http://gmod.org/wiki/Talk:Chado_Natural_Diversity_Module_Working_Group
> 
> We are using a version created in 2007 for HeliconiusDB as our
> starting point. (That version was based on the GDPDM from Cornell.)
> The module will support individuals, crosses, geolocations,
> experiments and assays, and will interact heavily with the genotype
> and phenotype modules.
> 
> We would like to broaden participation to anyone in the GMOD community
> who is interested.  The discussion will happen in several places:
> * The GMOD-Schema list.
> * The Working Group Talk page (see link above)
> * In weekly teleconferences (see below)
> 
> I'll periodically summarize email discussions and the teleconferences
> on the talk page.
> 
> If you are interested in participating, please
> * read about what's been done so far (including HeliconiusDB and GDPDM)
> * add your name to the participants list on the working group page
> * think about participating in the working group conference calls.
> 
> A conference call has been scheduled for Monday, February 8 at 11am
> Eastern US.  If you are interested in participating in the Feb 8 call,
> please let me know.  To help us schedule subsequent calls, we've set
> up a (time-zone aware) Doodle poll:
>   http://www.doodle.com/f2gd36wu5s4krfrt
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave C.