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myGrid consortium
Formation2001
Type
e-laboratories and have been used in domains as diverse as systems biology, social science, music, astronomy,[1] multimedia and chemistry.[2][3]

The consortium is led by Carole Goble of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK.

Tools produced and used by myGrid

Tools developed by the myGrid consortium include:

  • The
    Taverna workbench for designing, editing and executing scientific workflows[4][5][6]
  • myExperiment for sharing workflows and related data[7]
  • BioCatalogue a public registry of Web services for Life Scientists[8]
  • Seek[9][10] produced in collaboration with the SysModb: Systems Biology of Micro-Organisms DataBase[11][12] Finding, sharing and exchanging data, models and processes in Systems Biology
  • MethodBox[13][14] Browse datasets and share knowledge.
  • RightField[15][16] Sharing the meaning of your data by embedding ontology annotation in spreadsheets
  • The Kidney and Urinary Pathway Database (KUPKB)[17][18][19]
  • Workflows for Ever (wf4ever)[20][21] Scientific workflow preservation

History

The consortium has three distinct phases:

Phase 1

The consortium was formed in 2001, bringing together collaborators at the Universities of

Merck KGaA, AstraZeneca, Sun Microsystems, IBM, GeneticXchange, Epistemics and Cerebra, (formerly Network Inference). The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded the first phase of the project with £3.5 million.[23]

To date, Grid development has focused on the basic issues of storage, computation and resource management needed to make a global scientific community's information and tools accessible in a high performance environment. However, from an e-Science viewpoint, the purpose of the Grid is to deliver a collaborative and supportive environment that allows geographically distributed scientists to achieve research goals more effectively. MyGrid will design, develop and demonstrate higher level functionalities over an existing Grid infrastructure that support scientists in making use of complex distributed resources.

The project has developed an

Taverna[4][5][6]
that supports:

  • the scientific process of experimental investigation, evidence accumulation and result assimilation;
  • the scientist's use of the community's information; and
  • scientific collaboration, allowing dynamic groupings to tackle emergent research problems.

The myGrid project has also developed myExperiment to allow sharing of scientific workflows from Taverna and other Scientific workflow systems.

The Taverna workbench supports individual scientists by providing personalisation facilities relating to resource selection, data management and process enactment. The design and development activity will be informed by and evaluated using problems in bioinformatics, which is characterised by a highly distributed community, with many shared tools resources. myGrid will develop two application environments, one that supports individual scientists in the analysis of functional

genomic data, and another that supports the annotation of a pattern database
. Both of these tasks require explicit representation and enactment of scientific processes, and have challenging performance requirements.

Phase 2

In phase 2, from 2006 to 2009, the consortium is funded for £2 million

Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
. The membership of the consortium was concentrated in the University of Manchester and EMBL-EBI.

Phase 3

In December 2008, the UK's

Research Objects
.

References

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  10. ^ "Seek for Science | For finding, sharing and exchanging Data, Models and Processes in Systems Biology". Retrieved 21 June 2012.
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  12. ^ "About | SysMO-DB". Retrieved 21 June 2012.
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  14. ^ "MethodBox Home". Archived from the original on 18 September 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
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  16. ^ "RightField.org.uk | SysMO-DB". Retrieved 21 June 2012.
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  19. ^ "Kidney and Urinary Pathway Knowledge Base". Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  20. ^ "Home - wf4ever". Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  21. S2CID 16783450
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  22. ^ "The myGrid Project at EBI". Archived from the original on 10 November 2012.
  23. ^ "myGrid: Directly Supporting the E-Scientist GR/R67743/01". Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  24. ^ "myGrid: An OMII-UK Node (mymes: myGrid middleware for e-Scientists) EP/D044324/1". Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  25. ^ "myGrid: A Platform for e-Biology Renewal EP/G026238/1". Retrieved 20 June 2012.
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