CCB NIH Videoconference - Tue., October 17, 2006, 12:00-1:00 PM - TBA

• Attendees:
  • CCB: ArthurToga, Tony Chan, IvoDinov, RogerWoods, PaulThompson, DavidShattuck
  • NIH: Greg Farber (NCRR/NIH); Tom Aigner (NIDA); Larry Clarke (NCI); Valerie Florance (NLM); Dan Gallahan (NCI); Mike Huerta (NIMH); Yuan Liu (NINDS); Bret Peterson (NCRR); Terry Yoo (NLM); Yantian Zhang (NIBIB); John Haller (NIH/NIBIB)

• Aims and Scope of the VTC - The goals of these quarterly videoconferences are to:
  • Inform the science officers (SOs) about the current CCB research endeavors
  • Provide bi-directional feedback on programmatic, infrastructure and scientific issues
  • Obtain guidance and advice from SOs on specific problems and strategic directions
  • To help stimulate inter-NCBC integration and cross-center tool development

• Agenda - TBD
  • CCB and NCBC/NIH News^? TBD (stats, personnel, pubs, tools, media, infrastructure, program, etc.)
  • CCB Collaborations
    • DBP Projects – Plans for new DBPs.
    • CCB/NCBC Collaborative Projects - May 2006.
  • NIH and NCBC-wide initiatives (e.g., SDIWG, Eval, Ontology, Collaborative RFA, Data and SW licensing, etc.)
    • NCBC XMLtology Working Group
    • SDIWG
    • NCBC Ontology Workshop (March 24-25, 2006, Stanford)
    • NCBC AHM: July 17-19, 2006, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
  • Education and Training
  • Short- and Long-Term plans – CCB SAB (Thu., May 25, 2006) and AHM (Summer 2006)
  • Discussion of the dissemination plans for CCB. Specifically, any dissemination plans for the NCBC All Hands Meeting in Bethesda, July 2006. In general, what kinds of things are planned or have been executed to disseminate software?

• CCB POs and SOs Feedback Topics
  • CCB Programmer Resources
    • Internal developers
    • Contractors
    • External Open Source Developers
    • Space, Management, Allocation to SIG groups/projects
  • NCBC Integration
    • NCBC Evaluation Initiative
    • NCBC SW Ontology
    • SW interoperability
    • Joint SW open-source development
    • Data Sharing
    • Joint Training/Education venues (ala CCB/NCBO)
  • New directions for CCB DBP and Collaborative Projects
  • Unbiased assessment of the CCB scientific and computational achievements

• Logistics
  • Techs: Rico Magsipoc (CCB) & Steven Penn (NIH)
  • Date/Time: On a Quarterly Basis. Tuesdays 12:00-1:00 PM (Pacific Time).

    1st Quarter 2006	2nd Quarter 2006	3rd Quarter 2006	4th Quarter 2006
    Jan. 17, 2006	May 02, 2006	July 25, 2006	Oct. 17, 2006

  • VCon Specs: No VTC (as we saw frequent drops of calls last time).
  • TCon Specs: Phone Number is 1.866.747.9489, passcode 4212569 (Leader Passcode)
  • Wiki pages (minutes, action items, agendas, etc): http://www.loni.ucla.edu/twiki/bin/view/CCB/CCB_NCBC_Resources
  • NIH Breeze (ala http://nihbreeze.cit.nih.gov/r47348027/)

• Minutes and Action Items^?