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myExperiment was conceived in 2006, when the idea was presented in Carole Goble's keynotes and covered by MySpace for the dudes in lab coats in New Scientist magazine (issue 2574, page 29. 21 October 2006). With funding from the JISC Virtual Research Environments programme we first built a throwaway prototype which was launched as a closed beta at BOSC and ISMB in Vienna in 2007 to get user feedback and generate community vibe. The production service went open beta in November 2007 and has evolved through perpetual beta to the service that is running today. Focusing foremost on sharing of scientific workflows, myExperiment has broadened to other forms of process description (methods more generally) and distinctively provides a repository for aggregations of digital artefacts - the experiments of myExperiment.

The myExperiment codebase has been used to create new instances, notably [in Australia]. It has also provided the basis or inspiration of our other e-Laboratories projects, described below. Our vision is a family of products which together can be assembled to create the research environment for the next generation of research.

	The SysmoDB project builds on myExperiment to support sharing of data, models and experimental protocols in systems biology. See http://www.sysmo-db.org
	Instead of workflows, methodbox users share statistical methods for epidemiology and public health research. methodbox comes from the Obesity e-lab node of the UK e-Social Science programme. See http://www.methodbox.org/
	BioCatalogue is a registry of Web Services in the Life Sciences and is a new product based on the myExperiment experience. See http://www.biocatalogue.org/

Several other projects have built over myExperiment functionality

The NEMA project integrates myExperiment in the Networked Environment for Music Analysis.