ABI CellML Meeting Minutes, 7th December 2011

DRAFT

Present: Dougal Cowan, Andrew Miller, Randall Britten, Poul Nielsen, Tommy Yu

Apologies: Mike Cooling, David "Andre" Nickerson

This week's agenda:

1) New agenda discussion

Discussion:

  • There was a discussion about the agenda items for future CellML meetings. The following items were agreed:
    • Editorial board report and specs update
    • PMR2 and CellML
    • CellML model repository updates/stats
    • CellML API
    • CellML website updates/stats

2) CellML API

Progress:

  • Andrew: have been working on cleaning up the API for using from C++, now complete. Emailed the list about this for feedback but so far no replies.
  • Andrew: current work is on generic service which will make it easier to write new language bindings and will improve the Python bindings.

Discussion:

  • There was a discussion about the possible usefulness of using the Python bindings interactively via REPL.
  • There was a discussion about weekly updates for API, PMR2, etc, and where to put these update blogs. Possibly on the Sourceforge Wordpress service, or possibly on the CellML website.
  • Randall: need to think about moving the CellML API to github in the future.
  • There was a discussion about moving to github.
  • Randall: would like feedback from Andrew about the way OpenCMISS is using github.

3) PMR2 - update

Progress:

  • Randall: at the PMR2 meeting the conclusion was that we need to resource someone to work alongside Tommy on PMR2.
  • Tommy: search is fixed so it no longer displayed expired exposures.
  • Tommy: looked at identifiers.org and how they do their webservices.

Discussion:

  • There was a discussion about alternative ways to provide webservices.
  • Randall: need to announce that 0.5 is staged, and get feedback.

4) Repository updates

Discussion:

  • Dougal: have corrected and rolled over a couple of models which had problems reported by users. Would like to know how to handle these corrections in future.
  • There was a discussion about user-reported model corrections.
  • There was a discussion about the Koivumaki model translation into CellML.

5) CellML website

Discussion:

  • Dougal: it would be nice to update the site to Plone 4.
  • There was a discussion about Plone updates and ongoing Plone site maintenance in general.
  • Randall: this process needs to be done in a way that ensures that someone other than Tommy knows how to do it in future.

6) Specifications

Progress:

  • Andrew: working on translations from UncertML to CellML. There are discrete distributions in UncertML which we have overlooked. This is a possible omission from the paper.

Discussion:

  • There was a discussion about discrete distributions and how to take these into account in the paper.
  • Andrew: UncertML also has multivariate distributions, and we would have to convert these to realizations in CellML.