myGrid: an e-biologist workbench

myGrid aims to deliver a personalized collaborative problem-solving platform for e-Scientists working in a distributed environment, such that they can construct long-lived in silico experiments, find and adapt others, publish their own view in shared repositories, and be better informed as to the provenance of the tools and data directly relevant to them. The focus is on data-intensive post-genomic functional analysis.

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Grid Technologies

myGrid is an extensible open platform for data and tools interoperability, built using technologies from the Grid and Web Services (unified as the Open Grid Services Architecture) and the Semantic Web (such as OWL and RDF). The focus is upper-middleware.

Aims of the Pilot

The ultimate goal is to improve both the quality of information in repositories and the way repositories are used. The appropriateness of the infrastructure will be shown in two ways:

• For e-Scientists: by a workbench and two applications:
  • model organism gene expression analysis (fruit fly)
  • Genetic studies into Grave Disease
• For developers: by a myGrid-in-a-box developers kit:
  • the specification of services
  • service ontologies and models
  • APIs and message protocols
  • implemented pilot services, linking in existing Life Science integration platforms

There"s a richer description of myGrids objectives (taken from the original proposal), and how we aim to address them, at ProjectObjectives and WorkInProgress.

The current architecture is described at DeploymentArchitecture.

myGrid is an EPSRC project.

Further Information

You can find more information and documents on the project home page. Some useful topics in this web include:

• DocStore: myGrid Document Store

• UserGroup: myGrid User Requirements Analysis and Use Cases

• WorkInProgress: information about myGrid Work Packages

• DeveloperResources: information about myGrid development

• IntegrationFests: information about the periodic Integration Fests during which we bring together and integrate recently-developed components

• AssesmentWorkshops: information about project workshops

• PartnerResources: information for myGrid academic and industrial collaborators

• ExternalRelations: informing our users and funders; collaborating with other projects

• Technologies: pages on some of the important technologies used in myGrid

• OriginalProposal: information on the original myGrid proposal

• WritingOpportunity: writing opportunities