Tripal User's Meeting 2020/02/04

Community Highlights

Please add anything you would like to highlight about your Tripal-based projects: publications, new extension modules, new collaborations, newly funded grants, project update, etc.  We won't talk about these in the meetings but may tweet them from the Tripal twitter account if you approve!

Agenda

1. Messages from the PMC (Lacey Sanderson, Bradford Condon, Stephen Ficklin)

   • Thanks to those at the Codefest who were involved in the Tripal v4 working group and who have volunteered effort to submit code updates.

2. Messages from the TAC Chair (Meg Staton)

   • At PAG meeting had discussion about how to expand 

   • White paper and movement on grants.

3. Report from PAG Workshop & Hackathon Committee (Lacey Sanderson, Jill Wegrzyn, Chris Childers)

   • Workshop:

     • There was a great panel of talks! We would like to extend a huge thank you to the speakers and those of you able to attend.

   • Hackathon:

     • Thank you to everyone who was able to participate either in person or remotely!

     • Very productive producing a number of merged PRs to Tripal4 and Tripal Galaxy extension module & a great community discussion regarding storage of genome assemblies resulting in a concrete plan.

4. Training: VCF Filter Module (Lacey Sanderson)

   • GitHub: https://github.com/UofS-Pulse-Binfo/vcf_filter 

   • Documentation: https://vcf-filter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

   • Description: Provides efficient distribution of VCF files by providing users a means to filter before download. It also provides automatic conversion to common file formats (Hapmap ABH, etc).

5. To get involved with Tripal v4 development (Lacey)

   • https://github.com/tripal/t4d8

   • Documentation to help new developers (without reinventing the wheel):  https://tripal4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev_guide.html

     • This will be helpful in the future when folks hire new developers to get them  oriented

6. Question by Abdullah: what is the migration process from v3 to v4?

   • Answer (Lacey): it's a bit too early, but we are working to make the transition as friendly as possible and our hope is to have a migration/upgrade path.