microsoft research faculty summit 2008. david de roure university of southampton, uk
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Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008
myExperiment
David De RoureUniversity of Southampton, UK
myExperimentWhat it does
myExperiment is a Web 2.0 Virtual Research Environment It makes it really easy for the next generation of scientists to contribute to a pool of scientific workflows, build communities and form relationshipsIt enables scientists to share, reuse and repurpose workflows and reduce time-to-experiment, share expertise and avoid reinventionGo to www.myexperiment.org to access publicly available content or create an account
myExperimentHow it does it
An infrastructure to encourage sharing“Facebook for Scientists”...but different to Facebook!A community social networkA federated repositoryA gateway to other publishing environmentsA platform to launch workflows
myExperimentWhy do we want to share?
Paul writes workflows to identify biological pathways implicated in resistance to Trypanosomiasis in cattlePaul meets Jo. Jo is investigating Whipworm in mouse.Jo reuses one of Paul’s workflow without changeJo identifies the biological pathways involved in sex dependence in the mouse modelPreviously a manual two year study by Jo had failed to do this
myExperimentThe Project
Funded by JISC and MicrosoftPart of the myGrid ConsortiumStarted March 2007Closed beta since July 2007Open beta November 20071000 registered users1400 unique IP visits last month
myExperimentStats July 2008
959 active users82 groups248 group memberships296 workflow entries425 workflow versions101 files
1382 taggings46,427 downloads77,393 viewings408 creditations12 packs (with 237 total entries)
myExperimentFeatures
User ProfilesGroupsFriendsSharingTagsMessagingNews Feeds
WorkflowsCredits, Attributions,LicensingPacksRESTful APIAlternative Interfaces
Special Features
myExperiment
myExperiment FeaturesOwnership and Attribution
Packs allow you to collect different items together, like with a wish list or shopping basket, by linking to different thingsYou can link to internal things (workflows, files and even other packs) as well as things outside myExperimentYour packs can then be shared, tagged, discovered anddiscussed easilyPacks are exportedusing Object Reuseand Exchange
myExperiment FeaturesPacks
myExperiment FeaturesGoogle Gadgets
myExperiment FeaturesTaverna Plugin
myExperiment FeaturesEnactment
myExperiment FeaturesDeveloper Community
All the myExperiment services are accessible through simple RESTful programming interfaces
Use your existing environment and augment it with myExperiment functionality Build entirely new interfaces and functionality mashups
The open source Web 2.0 Software that powers the myexperiment.org web site is downloadable so you can run your own myExperiment for your lab or projectsGo to wiki.myexperiment.org for information about our Developer Community
myExperiment FeaturesDeveloper Community
wiki.myexperiment.org
myExperimentSummary
myExperiment provides social infrastructure – it facilitates sharingSpecial support for Taverna workflows, others being addedPacks enable items to be collected together, shared and taggedRESTful API for developing other interfaces and integrationFunctionality mashups in SilverlightSource code (BSD) can be downloaded from RubyForgeSee wiki.myexperiment.org for more information
myExperimentContacts and Credits
Contact
David De [email protected]
Carole [email protected]
Jiten BhagatDon CruickshankDanius MichaelidesMarco RoosDuncan HullPaul FisherSimon ColesSavasThe myGrid FamilyThe National Centre for e-Social ScienceWHIP