http://www.taverna.org.uk Taverna workflow system Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:36:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A patch for Taverna 2.1 is now available to download. To install the patch Start Taverna 2.1. It is best to install the patch when no workflows are being edited or run. Click "Advanced" on the top menu and select "Updates and plugins"; the Updates and plugins dialog will appear. Click "Find updates" ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2010/02/15/taverna-2-1-1-patch/ A pilot ChemTaverna project is currently being undertaken to investigate the application of Taverna in cheminformatics by scientists at the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, in collaboration with developers at the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB). A range of cheminformatics services will be made available for use in the Taverna 2.1 ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2010/01/19/chemtaverna-project-under-way/ Tutorial title: Programmatic Access to Biological Databases (Perl) Date: 22–26 February 2010 Venue: EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK Organisers: James Watson & Hamish McWilliam Admin support: Alison Barker & Janet Copeland Registration opens: 21 August 2009 - 12 noon (GMT) Registration deadline: 21 January 2010 - 12 noon (GMT) Tutorial overview, registration details and programme are ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2010/01/11/hands-on-tutorial-at-ebi-programmatic-access-to-biological-databases-perl/ Taverna 2.1 is available to download. It features: Copy/paste, shortcuts, undo/redo, drag and drop Animated workflow diagram Remembers added/removed services Secure Web services support Up-to-date R support Intermediate values during workflow runs myExperiment integration Excel and csv spreadsheet support Taverna 2.1 has been designed to improve the user-experience, the range of available services, include support for more industry standards, and ease ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2009/12/17/taverna-2-1-workbench-now-available/ NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) created the first American satellite and are now using Taverna for their Web services based infrastructure. You can read more about this and other news in the OMII-UK newsletter for December 2009 (also available as PDF). http://www.taverna.org.uk/2009/12/03/nasa/ David Withers, who is currently working with the BioMoby Consortium has developed an Excel spreadsheet plugin for Taverna 2.1 Beta 2. The plugin can read Excel (.xls), Excel 2007 / OOXML (.xlsx) and OpenOffice / ODF (.ods) files. It currently cannot read .xls files from Office 2008 for MAC. To enable the ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2009/09/11/excel-plugin-for-taverna-2-1-beta-2-now-available/ The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) have put out the following press release (original at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/08/videos.aspx): Press release New videos show how researchers use advanced technology New videos showing how JISC is helping researchers achieve faster, better and different research through virtual research environments have just been released at http://www.youtube.com/user/JISCmedia The videos feature projects from ... http://www.taverna.org.uk/2009/09/11/myexperiment-video-now-on-youtube/