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15 Feb /10

Taverna 2.1.1 Patch

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” within the dialog. You should now see that updates are available for three parts of Taverna. You need to install all three updates for Taverna to be patched correctly. Do *not* restart Taverna until all three updates are installed.
Choose “Compatibility” and then click “update” on the right. The Taverna user interface may be unresponsive while the update is downloaded. *Do not quit Taverna*.
When the update has finished, Taverna will show a dialog warning that the update will not take effect until Taverna is restarted. Do not restart Taverna yet. “Compatibility” should now show that it is version 2.1.1
Update “Services” and then update “Workbench” in a similar manner
Restart Taverna.

19 Jan /10

ChemTaverna project is under way

cheminformatics, chemistry

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).

11 Jan /10

Hands-on tutorial at EBI – Programmatic Access to Biological Databases (Perl)

biological database, EBI, Perl, tutorial

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)

17 Dec /09

Taverna 2.1 Workbench now available

release

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

3 Dec /09

One giant leap for Taverna

jpl, nasa, omii-uk

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).

11 Sep /09

Excel plugin for Taverna 2.1 Beta 2 now available

excel, plugin

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.

11 Sep /09

myExperiment video now on youtube

myExperiment

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):