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Weekly Announcements to Post 09-20-21 #141

Closed jeremywalter closed 3 years ago

jeremywalter commented 3 years ago

Add a comment containing your interesting links and announcements here! Let us know under which heading your post belongs (or add your own): Critical Announcements Events Meeting Outcomes Resources Tools New Releases Welcome/Farewell

*Please let us know if you would like your Announcements to be added to the Cross Pollination mailing list which includes Data Centers not onboarded with the CFDE.

jeremywalter commented 3 years ago

Two new RFCs are now available for comment by the community until October 15, 2021:

RFC stands for “Requests for Comments”. These are proposals being made by members of the CFDE to suggest that the CFDE community as a whole adopt the suggested new best practice. Everyone in the community is invited to respond to these proposals by leaving comments, critiques, and support at the links above. Comments are open for one month at which point the documents will be reviewed. If there are no substantial objections to the RFC in that time, it will be adopted as a CFDE Best Practice. You can read more about our RFC process here.

If you have any questions, please email the helpdesk at support@cfde.atlassian.net

RLC-DCPPC commented 3 years ago

Call for Participation

The Gene Expression Data Exchange Working Group will survey and evaluate existing resources and then recommend standards for metadata, file formats, and an API for the CFDE to facilitate storing, retrieving, and querying gene expression data. For more detail see the WG charter.

We plan a kickoff meeting later in September. To register your interest, please contact Bob Carter (GH: @RLC-DCPPC ; Slack: (at)Bob Carter; e-mail: rlc.dcppc@gmail.com) or Anup Mahurkar (GH: @amahurkar; Slack: (at)Anup Mahurkar).

jeremywalter commented 3 years ago

PEET details

jeremywalter commented 3 years ago

CFDE Announcements

This week we have announcements for two new working groups we are starting up. Please scroll down to find out more about the Gene Expression Data Exchange and Prototyping and Evaluation of Engineering Technology Working Groups.

Cross-Pollination Events

Our next scheduled meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 5th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT. Representatives from Ex-RNA, HuBMAP, and GTEx will be presenting. Please contact us today if you are interested in presenting at an upcoming event at support@cfde.atlassian.net! Regular Cross-Pollination events take place on the first Tuesday of every month. Please check out the Cross-Pollination Schedule for more details.

CFDE Trainings and Workshops

This Wednesday our training team will present our RNA-Seq Concepts, Designs & Workflows workshop. Click on the link to see more details and register! You can also explore the CFDE Events Calendar to find and register for other future events including the follow up RNA-Seq in the Cloud sessions. Our workshops are open to all, so feel free to share this information with interested friends and colleagues. This month we have three sessions on RNA-Seq last presented in June.

RFCs Available for Review and Comment

Two new RFCs are now available for comment by the community until October 15, 2021:

RFC stands for “Requests for Comments”. These are proposals being made by members of the CFDE to suggest that the CFDE community as a whole adopt the suggested new best practice. Everyone in the community is invited to respond to these proposals by leaving comments, critiques, and support at the links above. Comments are open for one month at which point the documents will be reviewed. If there are no substantial objections to the RFC in that time, it will be adopted as a CFDE Best Practice. You can read more about our RFC process here.

Working Group Updates

Gene Expression Data Exchange Working Group

This new group will survey and evaluate existing resources and then recommend standards for metadata, file formats, and an API for the CFDE to facilitate storing, retrieving, and querying gene expression data. For more detail see the WG charter. We plan a kickoff meeting later in September. To register your interest, please contact Bob Carter (GH: @RLC-DCPPC ; Slack: (at)Bob Carter; e-mail: rlc.dcppc@gmail.com) or Anup Mahurkar (GH: @amahurkar; Slack: (at)Anup Mahurkar).

Ontology Working Group

The next meeting for the Ontology Working Group is scheduled for Wednesday, September 22 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT. Ontology Working Group meetings are scheduled bi-weekly on Wednesdays. RFC and Survey 'homework' tasks can be found in the rolling agenda. You can get involved by joining their mailing list and slack channel.

PEET Working Group

The Prototyping and Evaluation of Engineering Technology (PEET) Working Group will be focused on finding and evaluating existing software engineering solutions to meet CFDE-CC and DCC needs. This working group will evaluate and choose existing software implementations, and/or prototyping modifications to implementations, that support ecosystem functionality such as data retrieval and resource registries. Our kick-off meeting will be on Oct 1 at 8am PDT/ 11am EDT. Subscribe to the PEET Working Group mailing list to receive updates and links to this and future meetings: PEETWorkingGroup+subscribe@CFDEpublic.groups.io.

Contributing

You can contribute to the next announcements by commenting on the open announcements issue in this repository. Share your events and updates by posting links and descriptions in our announcements issue!

Thank you all for your efforts and have a great week!

Jeremy Walter

jeremywalter commented 3 years ago

New working group being scheduled: Prototyping and Evaluation of Engineering Technology (PEET)-WG We are creating a new working group focused on finding and evaluating existing software engineering solutions to meet CFDE-CC and DCC needs. This working group will be focused on evaluating and choosing existing software implementations, and/or prototyping modifications to implementations, that support ecosystem functionality such as data retrieval and resource registries. (The former is important for shopping cart and data export functionality, the latter is how we are planning to integrate with external services.) We are scheduling our first meeting to take place in the last two weeks of August. We encourage you to fill out this scheduling poll with your biweekly schedule so that we can pick a time that works for the most people. Please fill it out by the end of this week if you are interested in attending!

Anup Mahurkar and Titus Brown, co-chairs.