http://www.taverna.org.uk Taverna workflow system Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:04:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Collaborations Workshop gets researchers and software developers working together to solve research problems. If you’re a researcher who wants to make more of software, or a developer who wants to work with researchers, the workshop is the perfect opportunity to meet new collaborators. The Collaborations Workshop will be held on 21-22 ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2012/01/23/software-sustainability-institute-collaborations-workshop/ The University of Manchester and Nowgen are hosting a one-day training course on the use of bioinformatics workflows for Next Generation Sequencing analysis on 17 January 2012 in Manchester, UK. The course will provide an introduction to using Galaxy and Taverna in Next Generation analysis and will highlight the increasing requirements ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2011/10/26/tavernagalaxy-next-generation-sequencing-course/ The Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration (SADI) and Taverna teams are pleased to announce the release of the SADI plugin for Taverna 2.3. SADI is a set of standards-compliant best practices that simplify interoperability between semantic Web services. The SADI codebase make it easy for people to deploy services that adhere ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2011/10/21/sadi-plugin-for-taverna-2-3/ The IMPACT project and myGrid will run a free hackathon on the use of Taverna workflows in IMPACT and cultural heritage digitisation. This workshop will be on the 14-15th November 2011 and held in Manchester, UK. Full details of the IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon and online registration can be found on the wiki ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2011/10/18/impact-project-and-mygrid-are-organising-a-taverna-hackathon/ The myGrid team are pleased to announce their involvement in a Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory. The project, led by the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, has €5 million in funding and is seeking to provide a vital service that will improve the way scientists share, analyse and ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2011/10/04/biodiversity-virtual-e-laboratory-launched/ Madhu Donepudi, of Eagle Genomics, is "Exploring Taverna and the community workflows" in his talk @ London BioGeeks, Thursday 22 September, 6:00pm. "This is an introductory tutorial covering bioinformatics workflows using Taverna workflow management system and on how to avoid ‘re-inventing the workflow’ by using community developed/published services." The event is taking ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2011/09/21/exploring-taverna-and-the-community-workflows-talk-london-biogeeks/ The CDK-Taverna plugin (developed by Andreas Truszkowski et al.) for Taverna 2.3 has been released (see their CDK-Taverna blog). CDK-Taverna allows users to include tools from the popular Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) within Taverna 2 workflows. To install the plugin, go to Advanced -> Updates and plugins in Taverna 2.3 Workbench. Click ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2011/07/29/cdk-taverna-plugin-for-taverna-2-3/ Dr Casey Bergman and his group of Life Sciences researchers from the Bergman Lab @ University of Manchester working on eukaryotic genome biology have successfully installed and used the integrated Taverna-Galaxy tools. See their blog about their experiences in installing and running Taverna-Galaxy. http://www.taverna.org.uk/2011/07/29/taverna-galaxy-in-eukaryotic-genome-biology-research/ A Taverna paper won the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), 2011: Jia Zhang, Wei Tan, John Alexander, Ian Foster, Ravi Madduri. Recommend-As-You-Go: A Novel Approach Supporting Services-Oriented Scientific Workflow Reuse. (to be published) Two other papers related to Taverna have also been published at ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2011/07/18/best-paper-award-for-a-taverna-paper-ieee-international-conference-on-services-computing/ Thousands of pounds are available for UK-based researchers who want to travel. If you use software in your research and you have a good understanding of what’s happening in your field (and an idea about what will be happening soon) then the Software Sustainability Institute want to hear from you. The ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2011/07/18/ssi-agent-travel-grants-for-uk-based-early-career-researchers/