News

Taverna 2 Server Release 1 The Taverna Team are pleased to announce the release of the first in the line of the new Taverna 2 Server series – Taverna 2 Server Release 1. Taverna Server manages the running of workflows, making the results of workflow runs available to users, tools, web pages and portals. The Server [...]

The Taverna team are pleased to announce that Taverna 2.2.0 Workbench and the Command Line Tool are now available for download. Taverna 2.2.0 includes improvements to the Workbench user interface and gives users greater control over the workflow engine. Here are a few of the new features in the Workbench: Loading and sharing of service sets Ability to [...]

The editors of Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) have chosen the recent BioCatalogue paper as one of their featured articles. Featured Articles represent the top 5% of NAR papers in terms of originality, significance and scientific excellence.

Thomas Kuhn et al have published the paper “CDK-Taverna: an open workflow environment for cheminformatics” in BMC Bioinformatics 2010. In it they describe a novel combination of the workflow engine Taverna and the cheminformatics library Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) resulting in a open source workflow solution for cheminformatics. We have implemented more than 160 different [...]

The European IMPACT project is working on improving access to historical texts. They have now adopted Taverna and myExperiment for the development, running and sharing of their workflows.

The myGrid team are proud to announce the release of Taverna Workbench 2.1.2. The release of Taverna Workbench 2.1.2 includes fixes and improvements to the user interface, workflow engine and extra support for secured WSDL services and access to secure resources on the web. The release notes contain a detailed description of the changes. As always, for any [...]

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 [...]

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 available on-line.

Collaboration increasingly lies at the heart of successful research. To help develop new collaborations, the Collaborations Workshop will bring together researchers, funding body representatives and technology experts in Edinburgh on 10-11 March 2010. This expertise, combined with the workshop’s novel structure, will create the perfect opportunity to meet researchers with complementary skills who, in collaboration, [...]

Taverna 2.1 is now available for download. It includes 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 For more information, please visit the new Taverna website.