Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to let you know that the IDAWG Commentary ["A Community Standard for Immunogenomic Data-reporting and Analysis: Proposal for a STrengthening the REporting of Immunogenomic Studies (STREIS) statement"] has been accepted for publication in Tissue Antigens! The reviewers' comments on the manuscript were minor and quite positive. Our thanks go out to all of you for your insight on the issues surrounding the publication of immunogenomic studies and for your contributions to the commentary. Congratulations to the working group on its first published manuscript. We are hoping that this publication will spark a community discussion on reporting guidelines that will build to the 16th Workshop next year.
Rich Single has emailed a CTA form to all the co-authors on the manuscript. Please respond to Rich's email as soon as possible, as the deadline for returning the agreement is Friday September 16th.
2011 ASHI Meeting
The working group will be meeting next month at the 37th annual ASHI meeting in
New Orleans, on Monday October 17 from 3-5pm. Please let us know if you will be able to attend the meeting in person, and as usual, we hope
to be able to support a Skype connection for those of you who will not be in New Orleans. We will distribute an agenda for the meeting in early
October; please let us know if there are any items you would like placed on the agenda for discussion at the meeting.
We will be presenting a brief update on the IDAWG 16th Workshop Project at the ASHI meeting during the International Histocompatibility Workshop Update on Tuesday October 18, from 4:30 to 6pm. This update will include some preliminary results of the ASHI-sponsored IDAWG Data-Management Methods Survey; if you have not already done so, please complete the survey before October 1st by going to www.surveymonkey.com/s/IDAWG.
Finally, we will also be presenting two IDAWG posters at the ASHI meeting (#234, "IDAWG 16th IHIW PROJECT: IMMUNOGENOMIC DATA MANAGEMENT METHODS," and #199, "OPEN ACCESS IMMUNOGENOMICS AT IMMUNOGENOMICS.ORG") on Tuesday, October 18, from 6-7PM.
We are looking forward to meeting with you at ASHI next month.
Cheers,
Steve and Jill