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The myGrid team produce and use a suite of tools designed to “help e-Scientists get on with science and get on with scientists”. The tools support the creation of e-laboratories and have been used in domains as diverse as , social science, music, astronomy, multimedia and chemistry. The tools have been adopted by a large number of projects and institutions.

The team has developed tools and infrastructure to allow:

• the design, editing and execution of workflows in Taverna • the sharing of workflows and related data by myExperiment • the cataloguing and annotation of services in BioCatalogue and Feta • the creation of user-friendly rich clients such as UTOPIA

These tools help to form the basis for the team’s work on e-Labs.

Taverna Workbench 2.1.2 available for download

The myGrid team have released Taverna Workbench 2.1.2. It supports secure access to data on the web, secure web services and secured private workflows.

Taverna 2.1.2 includes

• Copy/paste, shortcuts, undo/redo, drag and drop • Animated workflow diagram • Remembers added/removed services • Secure Web services support • Secure access to resources on the web • Up-to-date R support • Intermediate values during workflow runs • myExperiment integration • Excel and csv spreadsheet support

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From www.mygrid.org.uk/ 1 27 May 2010

Outreach >Outreach

The myGrid consortium put a lot of effort into reaching out to users. The team do not just “preach to the converted” but seek new users by offering Tutorials and giving talks, papers and posters in a very wide variety of places. Some videos about the work of the team and our colleagues are available to view.

The team are involved in the ENGAGE project that improves users’ experience of e- infrastructure. Some users and supporters of myGrid are more directly involved via the PALs programme.

The team help to keep in contact with users and developers by the use of Mailing lists.

The myGrid team have hosted short-term and longer-term visitors from various institutions throughout the world. The countries have included Canada, France, Netherlands, Thailand, Taiwan and the USA. We also collaborate with groups on research and the development of tools.

The myGrid Tools are widely used by a large number of institutions.

Tools >Tools

The myGrid team develop and use tools to allow users access to the capabilities of e-Science. The tools can be categorized functionally as supporting:

• workflow creation, editing and execution - such as Taverna • social networking by scientists and the sharing of workflows - myExperiment • interfaces that are specialized for the needs of users - UTOPIA • service creation and management tools - such as SoapLab and Workflow Monitor • ontology creation and checking tools - such as Protege • metadata encapsulation - Scientific Research Objects • the use of portal creation software

The tools can also be categorized according to their origin:

• tools developed by the consortium specifically for the e-Laboratory such as Taverna and myExperiment • tools developed by members of the consortium that are used by the e-Laboratory such as COHSE • external tools such as Protege

If you are interested in contributing to the development of myExperiment or Taverna, or in developing services specifically for Taverna, then please look at the developer information.

From www.mygrid.org.uk/ 2 27 May 2010

Projects >Projects

The myGrid consortium are currently involved in three kinds of projects.

• Core projects fund the consortium’s fundamental research and the development of the tools. o myGrid Platform Grant o myExperiment o Social Networking for Life Sciences o Web Services for Life Sciences (BioCatalogue) o ESNW o e-LICO o NeISS • Associated projects in which the myGrid tools are put to use to solve particular e-Science problems. o ChemTaverna - Workflows for chemoinformatics o ONDEX - Integration of Biological data o SysMO - Interoperation of Systems Biology data and services o Obesity e-Lab - eInfrastructure for collaborative research into obesity o Shared - Use of Taverna server to run workflows o REFINE - Text mining and visualisation o The Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology - development and exploitation of Systems Biology techniques o e-LICO - virtual laboratory for collaborative research o HELIO - Services and workflows for HelioPhysics • An outreach project designed to expose scientists to the possible uses of e-Science and to aid them in adopting the available tools and techniques o ENGAGE

There are also a large number of projects that the team have been involved with in the past:

• ADVISES - Adaptive visualization for eScience • caGrid Project - Support for running cancer-research workflows • ComparaGrid - Querying of genomic relationships • e-Fungi - Webservices for comparative genomics • ISpider - Proteomics workflows • MIASGrid - Medical Imaging • OntoGenesis - Specification of biology ontologies • OntoGrid • Sealife - Semantic grid browser for the life sciences • Semantic Provenance Project

From www.mygrid.org.uk/ 3 27 May 2010

Research >Research

The myGrid team’s research includes:

• Semantic metadata for provenance and discovery • scientific workflow management systems • workflow lifecycles, reuse and discovery • user interfaces for workflow design and enactment systems • virtual research environments and collaboration tools such as myExperiment

Publications

There is a searchable list [ww.mygrid.org.uk/outreach/publications/] of the team’s many publications.

Presentations

There is a searchable list [www.mygrid.org.uk/outreach/presentations/] of the team’s keynote and invited talks, presentations and tutorials myGrid In Use >myGrid In Use

More than 350 organizations around the world, both academic and commercial, are known to use Taverna.

There are more than 1400 registered users of myExperiment.

A small set of examples of the successful use of Taverna is available here.

The widespread impact of myGrid is indicated by the large number of publications citing Taverna.

The myGrid team also collaborate with many other groups.

Research Domains

The myGrid tools are being used by researchers in a large number of different domains to allow novel research or to speed up, formalize or share existing research. These domains include:

• annotation of data • astronomy • cancer research • chemistry • data and text mining

From www.mygrid.org.uk/ 4 27 May 2010

• genome and gene expression • medical imaging • use of multimedia • plant biology • proteins and proteomics • systems biology

Information Technology Perspective

Projects and researchers have used the myGrid tools in many different ways. These include:

• accessing and manipulating databases • running on a grid • tools behind a portal • information quality assessment • inclusion within a package • service creation or wrapping • running as a webservice • workflow annotation and inference • as a basis for extension

From www.mygrid.org.uk/ 5 27 May 2010