**Integrative Cancer Research Workspace Teleconference**

November 14, 2007\
Meeting Minutes

**Teleconference Information\
**2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST\
Moderator: Juli Klemm/ Elaine Freund

**Executive Summary**

The meeting included an introduction of Elaine Freund, Ph.D. as the new
ICR Workspace Lead, comments by Juli Klemm regarding the current status
and future of the Workspace, and updates from the High Throughput and
Workflow Working Groups.

**Key Outcomes/Items of Interest**

Introduction of Elaine Freund

-   Juli Klemm introduced Elaine Freund as the new ICR Workspace Lead.

-   Curt Lockshin was thanked for his work as he transitions off the
    project.

-   Elaine Freund briefly gave her background.

-   Juli continued her intro saying Kevin Groch will continue in his
    role supporting the work space.

-   Juli and Subha Madhavan will continue their efforts in the
    workspace, Juli will be the main point of contact.

Working Group Updates

ASBP WG

-   Ted Liefeld was at a Broad Institute retreat and unavailable.

HTP WG

-   Martin Morgan present slides found on GForge
    <https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/?group_id=179>

-   The major challenge facing this group is the movement of large
    objects between services

-   Juli Klemm suggested the caArray team give a presentation (Dec/Jan
    time frame) outlining the latest in caArray v2.0 and the strategies
    they employed regarding data transfer. Juli noted that Aris Floratos
    will be one of the first adopters of the caArray2.0 grid service
    interface.

-   Juli works on caBIO, a caCORE SDK generated data service. They are
    finding that some of their customers are requesting greater
    performance in retrieving data. The team is exploring ways of
    delivery. It was agreed to have caBIO give a presentation to the HTP
    Group to begin a regarding approaches for improving performance.

-   The Tissue Banks representative (David Steffan) noted security is a
    concern in moving patient-related data confirming the need for that
    topic to be addressed in the HTP group as noted in Martin's slide
    deck.

WF WG

-   Kiran Keshav present slides found in GForge
    <https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/?group_id=179>

-   Kiran gave a brief overview of looking at Taverna (a UK developed
    system) to author workflow. Documentation relating to the workflow
    authoring tool can be found on the caGrid 1.0 section of GForge
    <https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/docman/index.php?group_id=25&selected_doc_group_id=23&language_id=1>

-   The group was working with the caArray development team and
    additional files are needed for their prototyping exercise. They
    have pulled BioAssayData out of caArray and will analyze in
    geWorkbench, Genepattern. Juli suggested Kiran contact Steve Matyas
    to do a local compilation.

-   Kevin Groch asked if the Grid team is documenting what they've taken
    over from the hand over. Kiran said yes, they are working more on
    the tooling.

**Announcements:**

-   The release of caCORE SDK v4.0 with CSM and CLM was announced.

-   Juli pointed out that support for open source UML tool is now
    available. This is not to replace EA, but Argo UML is now supported.

-   There was a question on why that chosen. Juli knows that it was well
    researched and referred questions to caCORE Users listserv.

**Action Items:**

  -------------- ----------------- -------------- ------------------------
  Name           Action Item       Date Due       Notes
  Responsible                                     

  Martin Morgan  Schedule          December or    Dependent on the
                 presentation by   January HTP WG availability of the
                 the caArray       telecon.       caArray team.
                 development team.                

  Martin Morgan  Schedule          January or     Dependent of the
                 presentation by   February HTP   availability of the
                 the caBIO         WG telecon.    caBIO team.
                 development team.                

  Kiran Keshav,  Coordinate on                    
  Juli Klemm     providing caArray                
                 1.5 grid service                 
                 client jar to                    
                 geWorkbench                      
                 team..                           
  -------------- ----------------- -------------- ------------------------

**Attendees:**

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        **First Name**   **Last Name**  **Institution**

  1     Pankaj           Agarwal        Duke University

  2     Aris             Florapos       Columbia University

  3     Kevin            Groch          Booz Allen

  4     Kiran            Keshav         Columbia University

  5     Mary             McAdams        IMS

  6     Martin           Morgan         FHCRC

  7     Seza             Orcun          Purdue University

  8     Benjamin         Powers         IMS

  9     Mukesh           Sharma         Washington University School Of
                                        Medicine

  10    Patty            Spears         Patient Advocate

  11    Grace            Stafford       The Jackson Laboratory

  12    David            Steffen        Baylor College of Medicine

  13    Juli             Klemm          NCI

  14    Elaine           Freund         3rd Millennium
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