Tim Booth, Ryan Brinkman, Oliver Fiehn, Dawn Field, Jennifer Fostel, Graeme Grimes, Eugene Kolker, Ruth McNally, Norman Morrison, Don Robertson, Phillippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Chris Taylor, Stefan Wiemann.

• Update by Chris on activities to date, setting up telcons in the future
  • Positive discussion with NBT on MICheck paper, we should press on and get the paper back to them: NBT says the issue will be out in Feb / March or later, so there is a period in which we could still build the website and no significant change to paper except small tweaks; if we don't have the content by then, they would 'downgrade' it to a different category publication.
  • Brief discussion of the three recent papers in NBT 'critical' of standards ([1],[2],[3]).
  • Chris will soon be able to spend a lot more time on MICheck (essentially now an FTE).
  • Website should be more actively developed soon by Chris now that MIAPE paper has been resubmitted.
  • Website now has project registration form (excel and XML), list of registered projects, MIACA, MIRIAM, MIAPE, MIMix, GSC, MIAME/Env.
  • Telecons - suggested bi-weekly, a cluster now because of paper and feel out the situation - two in Dec.
     
• Feedback on the reviews - what to do with the paper
  • Reviewed suggestions to date; make it very short; submit later; proceed.
  • Could take into account the recent NBT papers.
  • Resubmit by end of year, more or less as is, after some work on website.
     
• Name change (MICheck is another project) - how about "MIChecklist"? Other suggestions?
  • Required because MICheck project already exists.
  • Alternatives include: MIcatalog, MIlog, MIchecklist (no, owned by a bank).
  • OBRA - Open Biological Reporting Anthology - I'd also prefer something like "OBRA template". Although MIMI is absolutely correct, it sounds weird.
  • MIBI Standards, or MIBI for short: Minimum Information for Biomedical Investigations. The "s" on standards I thought may be import to get the idea that this is not just one, but a collection - or better Biological - top contender - currently the front runner - on how about "Life Sciences"
  • MIgistry
  • MI Core Set
  • Final consensus - MIB*I - "MIBI" - to get around biological / biomedical - with Bio*
     
• Registering projects with MIcheck - Excel template for MIMI ("Minimum Information about a Minimum Information") form available
  • XML schema available, but excel seems a more practical approach for now
  • Really need input from micheck community
  • Not really a standard per se, but a mechanism for MICheck to catalogue the checklists in a useful form - call it 'project registration instead' and don't make too big a deal of it
  • Defining MIMI is valuable - a project in itself
  • Issue of whether specifications should use 'must' and 'should' or 'may' and could', MIAPE tending more towards the former, what stance should MICheck take?
  • Checklists should be about science, developed and used by scientists
  • How prescriptive should we actually be? without an explicit level of detail, the data still can't be processed
  • 15 total extant projects 'registered' by intent through authorship on paper
    • (N.B. two additional documents listed in paper, but subsequently subsumed by CIMR [MIAMet, SMRS])
  • Should we set a deadline?
  • Need to consider how to manage a large list in the future (Chris looking at javascript for navigation according to categories)
  • PSI, GSC, and Env have been MIMI-in-Excel testers - any other group willing to give it a test run welcome!
     
• The website (Chris to make a start, the group to advise?), what about a wiki? Mailing lists (communication and co-ordination)
  • As a priority, add a description of MIMI, the excel template - DONE
  • Yes, enough of a need for interaction in MICheck members to warrant a mailing list
  • Set up public wiki and two mailing lists (all, coordinators)
  • Static webpages and some kind of search facility over guidelines we have
  • List of coordinators and communities to go up in wiki
  • News to be added in a blog
  • Support for using the OBO (obo.sourceforge.net) site as a 'template' - list of checklists could be organized / browsed in a similar fashion (yes / no whether Foundry etc)
  • Bit of history (PSI meeting session), FAQ - who we are, how different from others, etc
  • Turn venn in header into a real example of overlap
  • Add meeting notes to website
  • By Dec 1, growing content available! positive feedback
     
• Charter - promised in paper
  • Will start a draft this week (Ruth, Norman, Dawn to do a preliminary read through) - base on extracts from paper plus a bit more - a mission statement, what is our purpose, what do we hope from people who sign up; also more meaningful Foundry sign-up pledge
  • Primary community is really composed of the MIxxx coordinators
  • Any group can register a checklist without further commitment to MICheck
     
• Linkages (relevant meetings, information to the web in the short-term)
  • No mode for inviting people not in a specific community but with general interest /expertise yet, could be useful
     
• The scope of MICheck (Linkages between MIcheck, OBO/OBI, and FuGE; RSBI)
  • Some discussion that people have different ideas of the scope
  • Further discussion is needed
  • Good suggest to people 'best practice' is the use of GO, OBI, FuGE etc, but not as a 'must' more a should
  • MIcheck (content, checklist), OBI (ontology), and FuGE (syntax) is a useful construct
  • No a priori limit on scope (anytime of checklist to be initial investigations)
     
• MICheck Foundry - future MICheck workshops (face-to-face meetings)
  • Yes, positive about the need for workshops
  • Susanna is putting in a BBSRC bid to fund workshops for multi-omic workshops - including one for MICheck (OBI, FuGE also)
  • Chris exploring potential funding routes with BBSRC T&R in support of their new data sharing policy (which promotes standards uptake)
  • Come up with a memorandum of understanding if others significantly change guidelines
  • Need future discussion of what the products of the Foundry will be
     
• Wrap up and volunteers (what are people willing to do)
  • Poll for telcon dates - key to have one in early Dec and one in middle (a paper discussion before it goes back) Friday 8th, Friday 15th - final draft out from Chris by 11th - Chris
  • Start to write some guidelines for new MIxxx groups
  • Ask Amelia (at EBI) about practical aspects of OBO tree (collapsible) view on website - could we easily do the same - Chris
  • Ryan to put in EI on Dec 1 for a 'standards summit' (can take cv's etc from Susanna's bid) - 25k for flights (CIHR funding; http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/30812.html)
  • Connotea - bibliography, website: Ryan (after Dec 15), Dawn