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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.

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The book The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, a collection of essays expanding on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray, was launched at the Microsoft eScience 2009 Workshop. Chapters include The impact of workflow tools on data-centric research by Carole Goble and David De Roure, and A unified modeling approach to data-intensive healthcare by [...]

What do you know about e-Research? OMII-UK are looking for volunteers to fill in a ten-minute survey. Completing the survey not only gives you the chance to win an Amazon voucher, it also means that you will be directly contributing to development of the software and support that is needed by the research community. The survey is [...]

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 plugin, go [...]

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK 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 JISC’s [...]

A tutorial in Japanese on Taverna 1.5 has been produced by the National Institute of Genetics, Japan. The tutorial is available in PDF. The tutorial shows how to construct and run workflows, using the DNA Databank of Japan services as examples. Although designed for Taverna 1.5 the tutorial is still relevant to [...]

Hi, Taverna 1.7.2 has now been released. This is largely a maintenance release, and the key changes include: Enhancements to the Biomoby plugin - including code maintenance and support for http post services (synchronous/asynchronous) a fix for handling some non WS-I compliant arrays returned from RPC/Encoded webservices improvements to handing Alternative processors fixes to the Remote Execution and myExperiment [...]