David, Nitin and Ross teleconferred briefly today

1. Alpha build:

   Weiliang has generated all missing .Rd files and checked them in to the sf repository. Some additional fields needed from some files from Greg and Nitin. One small problem which Vince is helping Weiliang debug. Nitin pointed out that some .Rd files might have disappeared from earlier versions - will take a look to see what happened.

   Once we get an error free build with complete files, we'll be ready for the alpha release and cutover to BioC svn. Watch this space. Maybe next week?

1. David had good news on his phase 1 development proposal - informal word is that it if the budget approved is close to the previous one, he'll be funded.
2. Ross reported two interesting R package posters at ASHG. Authors were solicited to come take a look at our project and to consider joining forces. One is a genotype simulation package, the other a SNP/LD viewer. Current hot topic was copy number variation as a source of phenotype variation. Increasingly convincing evidence that it's heritable and that it might matter... The Sanger has also released HapMap? sample CNV data set - see http://www.sanger.ac.uk/humgen/cnv and download from http://www.sanger.ac.uk/humgen/cnv/data to go with the genevar resource!!
3. David reported that he was making good progress on the SPlusGene? function list. Superlink not donatable as licensed from Dan Geiger. Although low probability, Ross to ask Geiger if he'd be willing to consider donating code - eg previous commercial release. http://cbl-fog.cs.technion.ac.il/superlink/ has executables downloadable - maybe we should just wrap the executable and rgenetics users wanting to run superlink could independently download the latest executable for their platform??