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UK e-Science All Hands Meeting

The myExperiment team will be present at the UK eScience All Hands meeting in Edinburgh, September 8-11. We are demoing myExperiment on Tuesday 9th in the main demo area. The demonstration programme includes Taverna (Wednesday 11.30) and the other Virtual Research Environment projects. You'll find us around the Manchester and JISC stands - come and meet us!

ISMB and BOSC 2008

Toronto, Canada, July 2008. Taverna and myExperiment were presented at the Manchester Bioinformatics stand at the 2008 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Conference. Katy Wolstencroft and Paul Fisher gave a demo of taverna and myExperiment at ISMB, and Jiten Bhagat presented myExperiment at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC). From left to right: Marco Roos, Jiten Bhagat, Paul Fisher, David Withers, Carole Goble, David De Roure, Katy Wolstencroft.

Previous Events

• David De Roure presented myExperiment at the International Summer School on Grid Computing (ISSGC) 2008 in Hungary, July 2008.
• David De Roure presented myExperiment at the JISC Innovation Forum, Keele, UK July 2008.
• Carole Goble interviewed in Interface, the NBIC newsletter, June 2008.
• David De Roure presented Six Principles of Software Design to Empower Scientists at the e-Science Project Management Symposium held at OeRC, Oxford, April 2008.
• David De Roure and Jiten Bhagat presented Towards Science Mashups in myExperiment at the at Microsoft Science All Hands Meeting in Seattle, March 2008.
• myExperiment mentioned in Nature Nature 451, 1024-1025 (20 February 2008).
• myExperiment featured in David De Roure's seminarThe New e-Science at the Oxford e-research Centre, Oxford, February 2008.
• myExperiment mentioned in Jim Hendler's article Reinventing Academic Publishing, Part 3 in in IEEE Intelligent Systems January/February 2008, page 2-3.
• myExperiment featured in Carole Goble's keynote Curating Services and Workflows: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly at the 3rd International Digital Curation Conference, Washington DC, December 2007.
• myExperiment featured in David De Roure's keynote The New e-Science at the IEEE e-Science Conference, Bangalore, December 2007.
• myExperiment.org is live! We are pleased to announce that we moved from closed to open beta on 12th November 2007. It was demoed at 9am PST by Savas Parastatidis at Supercomputing 07 in Reno and blogged.
• myExperiment was presented by Carole Goble and David De Roure at the Microsoft e-Science Workshop at RENCI, North Carolina, 21-23 October, 2007.
• myExperiment was presented by David De Roure in the Web 2.0 workshop and the Workflow session (WFM-RG) at OGF21 in Seattle, 15 October, 2007.
• myExperiment was introduced by Katy Wolstencroft at the Joint OMII-UK & EBI Industry Programme Workshop, Hinxton, Cambridge UK, October 8-9 2007.
• myExperiment featured in talks by David De Roure at the Workshop on Scientific and Scholarly Workflow, Washington, October 2007.
• myExperiment featured in Carole Goble's keynotes at GRID2007 (Austin, Texas) and e-Social Science 2007 (Ann Arbor).
• The myExperiment fully-RESTful Developer's API is now available ( PDF)
• Members of the myExperiment team were present at the UK e-Science All Hands meeting in Nottingham, 10-13 September 2007 - with T shorts and mugs! myExperiment also featured in the VRE roundtable discussion on Wednesday 12th.
• Carole Goble gave a talk on myExperiment: A MySpace for the Self-serving Bioinformatician at the 4th Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop, Ghent, on September 11, 2007.
• myExperiment was introduced by Katy Wolstencroft at BOSC, Vienna on Saturday 21st July 2007 and opened for Beta testers at BOSC and ISMB
• myExperiment was demoed at the International Summer School on Grid Computing 2007, Sweden (ISSG07) on 20th July 2007 and opened for Beta testers on the myExperiment-discuss list. DDeR gave a position statement on Ending the Tyranny of the Grid - here are the slides.