Inna Dubchak visit

Inna Dubchak from the LANL Joint Genome Institute gave an overview of her VISTA i2b2 docking project. This allows the VISTA i2b2 cell to provide analyses of the "meaning" of variants based largely on conservation data. Also gave an update on the rviewer tool

Technical Futures

Shawn, Kohane, NIch, Mike, Zak, Susanne, Bickel Discussed several important minimal commitment abstractions useful for temporal reasoning and for suggesting related queries.

Diabetes Mellitus + Autoimmune NLP definitions for cardiovascular disease

Shaw, Liao, Plenge et al., discussed our common needs on cardiovascular disease. The question of how detailed to go as opposed to a broad definition was reviewed. The tendency was to go in both directions.

Distributed queries

Griffin Weber, Shawn Murphy, Bill Simons, Susanne Churchill, Zak Kohane Discussed latest national developments for SHRINE queries. Very significant support and enthusiasm from the AUG. Reviewed temporal query capabilities and roadmap.