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.