http://www.mygrid.org.uk Enabling e-Scientists to get on with Science Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:23:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Taverna 2.0, the new version of Taverna, has been released. It is available now for download. Please read the requirements and documentation. If you have any comments please send them to the Taverna users mailing list. http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/12/taverna-20-released/ At the Microsoft eScience Workshop in Indianapolis, Professor Goble was awarded the inaugural Jim Gray eScience Award, named in memory of the Microsoft researcher. http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/12/carole-goble-wins-inaugural-jim-gray-escience-award/ Hello everyone, The myGrid team are pleased to announce that their proposal for the funding by the UK EPSRC (the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) of the myGrid platform renewal grant has been successful. The grant will run from January 2009 to January 2014 and the award of 1.3 million UK ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/12/mygrid-platform-grant-renewal/ Hello, I have updated the Rshell plugin to be compatible with R 2.7+ (and the newest Rserve version). This version is also backwards compatible with R 2.3+ and the correspondig Rserve version. The new Rshell plugin requires Taverna 1.7.1. The version has some of improvements: Support for PDF Lesser port types and therefore easier ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/12/updated-rshell-plugin-available/ OMII-UK have developed the Workflow Monitor to improve the long-term reliability of workflows by identifying the cause of workflow decay (a term used to describe the situation where a historically successful workflow will no longer execute). More information and downloads can be found on the Workflow Monitor web page (www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/WorkflowMonitor). The ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/11/workflow-monitor-released/ The public beta of Taverna 2 has been released. Taverna 2 will be released in December 2008. http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/11/taverna-2-beta-1-released/ The myExperiment team are very pleased to announce a number of new features in response to feedback from myExperiment users: Group announcements - group admins can now make public or private announcements within their group. This is a great way to keep people notified of events. Pack downloads - you can now ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/10/myexperiment-now-has-group-announcements-pack-downloads-sent-messages-and-more/ The myExperiment team is very pleased to announce that myExperiment can now store any type of workflow, not just Taverna ones. This means that you can upload any file as a workflow which can then be shared, discovered, downloaded, tagged, rated, commented on, added to packs and so on. We ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/10/in-myexperiment-you-can-now-upload-any-type-of-workflow-you-want/ The poster Orchestrating caGrid services in Taverna won an Outstanding Poster Award at the Biomedical Informatics Without Borders Meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. The meeting was sponsored by the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) and the UK National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI). Congratulations to Ravi Madduri, Wei Tan and all the ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/09/outstanding-poster-award-at-the-cabig-ncri-conference/ The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) Taverna plugin version 0.5.1 has been released. http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2008/08/cdk-taverna-release-of-051/