http://www.mygrid.org.uk Enabling e-Scientists to get on with Science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:25:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A new version of RightField (v0.15) has been released. It contains a number of bugfixes and improvements, and updates to the latest versions of apache-poi (with a reduced level of patching) and the owl-api. In particular, it also introduces an Apply button to explicitly apply a validation to a cell, ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2012/02/new-rightfield-version-released/ The Ontologies Come of Age challenge at the Intenational Semantic Web Conference 2011 has been won by Simon Jupp, Julie Klein, Panagiotis Moulos, Joost Schanstra and Robert Stevens: Ontologies Come of Age with the iKUP Browser Congratulations to all involved. The iKUP Browser can be seen online. http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2012/02/ikup-browser-wins-prize/ The myGrid team are pleased to announce the release of the first public beta version of the SCUFL2 API, Version 0.9.2. SCUFL2 is the proposed new mechanism for specifying Taverna workflows, and forms the basis for our current development work on Taverna 3. SCUFL2 adopts Linked Data technology and preservation methodologies ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2012/02/scufl2-tavernas-new-workflow-format/ 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.mygrid.org.uk/2012/01/software-sustainability-institute-collaborations-workshop/ Mannie Tagarira has announced that the official BioCatalogue iPhone and iPad app is now available on the app store for free download. Accessing and sharing the BioCatalogue's web service just got easier! This app allows you to browse the catalogue for services, service providers, other BioCatalogue members. In addition ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2011/08/biocatalogue-iphone-and-ipad-app/ 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.mygrid.org.uk/2011/07/ssi-agent-travel-grants-for-uk-based-early-career-researchers/ The Taverna team are pleased to announce that Taverna 2.3.0 Workbench and the Command Line Tool are now available for download. Taverna 2.3.0 includes new service types, integration with service catalogues and experimental export of provenance information. Here are a few of the new features in the Workbench: REST service allowing you ... http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2011/07/release-of-taverna-230-workbench-and-command-line-tool/ The March-April 2011 issue of Bio-IT World has an interview with Professor Goble called "Democratizing Informatics for the ‘Long Tail’ Scientist" in which she talks with Bio•IT World editor-in-chief Kevin Davies about her mission to democratize informatics for life sciences. http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2011/03/professor-goble-talks-to-bio-it-world/ Panacea, the Platform for Automatic, Normalized Annotation and Cost-Effective Acquisition of Language Resources for Human Language Techniques, have released a catalogue of related services. The Panacea Catalogue uses the BioCatalogue architecture. http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2011/03/panacea-catalogue-using-biocatalogue-architecture/ The recent paper Further developments towards a genome-scale metabolic model of yeast in BMC Systems Biology 2010, 4:145 by Paul Dobson et al. has been classed as Highly Accessed. http://www.mygrid.org.uk/2011/03/yeast-model-paper-is-highly-accessed/