hello. I'm a bioinformatician working in plant sciences. and wound be very interested to here more about this project. thanks. Dan.

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Dear Dan

Thanks for your interest!

My current plan of work is to find out more about MyGrid^? myself. I'm going to prepare some material to describe what software in the project currently does, and what it is planning to do. Once I've got to this stage, I'll get back to you to show this material, and then hopefully you'll know enough to decide if you would like to contribute some time towards future MyGrid^? requirements (and also if it can do anything useful for you!).

Stefan

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Dear Daniel

Further to your previous email, I have now written a brief introduction to the areas of research in which myGrid is involved, which I've attached to this email.

I've been asked to investigate how people using bioinformaticians perform bioinformatics tasks. This information will be used to validate ideas produced by myGrid so far, and to feed into future design work. This could include details such as what databases and other applications you use, how data is stored (both temporarily whilst a task is being performed, and for persistence), and the potential for automation of the tasks which you perform. It would probably be good to record any discussion I have with you so that I can transcribe it. I would like to collect, if possible, examples (such as spreadsheets, data etc) of how people do computing, and ideally we would like to collect enough to be able to reconstruct a particular bioinformatics task in our lab.

If you're still interested, and willing to help, perhaps we could arrange a meeting to sort out the best way for me to collect the kind of data that I've talked about above, and perhaps also to sort out some papers etc to read so that I can learn more about what you're doing.

Thanks

Stef