Meeting Agenda/Minutes

• Day: Tuesday, 22nd January 2008
• Time: 10.00 am
• Room: Atlas 2

Apologies

Katy

Attending and minuting

Minuting: Franck

Attending: Alan, Stuart, Ian, John, David, Jits, Bharathi, Paolo, June, Franck, Carole, Paul, Marco

Actions from Previous Meeting

• Tom: Chase GoViz^? service at EBI (considering taking over the hosting) Possibly remove example and from default services. ongoing

• Katy: Inform taverna-users about t2. - In progress, Katy sent the request to local users and is gathering a short list of known problems (e.g. r-serve etc) ongoing

• Tom: Work out techie docs - continues: ongoing

• June - talk to Bio Catalogue investigators about EBI hire of curator. completed

Items

myGrid Family Meeting 10.00 - 12.00

Report back from OMII-UK Operations & Management

We need someone to go to OGF. June will check with Alex if she can make it.

Report back / Upcoming from Team A

• Working on provenance use case with Paul, Franck, Paolo, Ian.
• Stuart to talk to Steve later on this week.
• Stian talked to Steve about using Utopia in Taverna: possible to do with a small python code.
• Taverna annotation object model should be ready by the end of the day. The new model seems to fit well with what we're going to do in the Biocatalogue such as getting users annotations and comments.
• Stian's been working on the new Feta browser which is now out.

Report back / Upcoming from Team B

• Jits: is meeting Katy, Paul and Franck on wednesday to gather user requirements.
• Jits: has created a myExperiment google style home page and is integrating privacy policy plugin system.
• Carole: the Taverna website is very hostile therefore all myExperiment link should point to the myGrid site instead.
• Marco will invite people who want to attend the Taverna workshop in Amsterdam to register via myExperiment site.
• Jits: has integrated google analytic to myExperiment site with Stian's help.
• Jits: has added bookmark capabilities to myExperiment.

Report back / Upcoming from Team B

• David: spent time on the roadmap; working on T2 tranlator
• David: looking into security issues.

Report back / Upcoming from Team Frog

nothing on nesting

• Alan: working on the metrics report for OMII-UK
• Alan: working on Judy's input for EPSRC
• According to Alan people don't stay too long on the myGrid site. They seem to run away after the first page... something has to be done.
• There is a need to add download site to a myGrid page. Or can we have only 1 website?

Report back / Upcoming from Training, Outreach and Curation

• Franck is going to train the white rose grid group in Sheffield next Monday.
• Franck: looking into the localhost issues raised by the new Feta browser.

Support hat and JIRA review (alternate weeks)

Stian to take over Tom

Upcoming meetings. What needs to be attended? Who can attend?

• OGF: Alex may be going
• CaGrid^? meeting: Carole is attending, she needs some materiels from the group.
• Genome workshop: Paul is attending
• System biology workshop

Funding news

• June: possible funding from NERC. Still under discussion

Sickness reporting procedures - and other issues that affect the new group structure.

• Check with Constantino or ASCO

AOB

• Stian will meet Richard Banach to discuss refactoring in Software Engineering.
• Paolo - provenance presentation: Paolo shows a workflow that could be included in a given workflow in order to retrieve its provenance information.
• Overview of alternative workflow systems: for next week
• Taverna Data sheet - what should be on it? - who to take it on?: for next week

• Any other business (AOB)

There is a need to write a best practice guideline on using T2, Reference parsing.

• Minuting for the next meeting

myGrid Family meeting

New Actions

• June: check with Alex if she can go to OGF
• Stuart: talk to Peter Li to find out system biology provenance requirement
• Franck: ask user on myExperiment to try T2
• Tom: investigate what is required for BioAssist^? workflows to work in T2 .
• John: talk to David and Bruno about reference parsing workflow on a Grid.

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