myExperiment
The myExperiment Virtual Research Environment enables you and your research community to share digital items associated with your research — in particular, it enables you to share and execute scientific workflows. It supports the individual scientist on their personal projects, forming a distributed community with scientists elsewhere who would otherwise be disconnected, enabling them to share, re-use and repurpose experiments, to reduce time-to-experiment, share expertise and avoid reinvention — and it does this in the context of the scholarly knowledge lifecycle. Hence myExperiment is a community social network, a market place, a platform for launching workflows and a gateway to other publishing environments.
myExperiment is part of the myGrid consortium, which develops the Taverna workbench for creating and executing scientific workflows, and also builds on CombeChem - two of the original UK e-Science Pilot Projects. The related WHIP (Triana enactment) activity in Cardiff is supported by the OMII-UK Commissioned Software Programme.
We are developing the Web 2.0 open source Software that powers the myexperiment.org web site. The closed beta release of the site (myexperiment.org) was launched in July 2007 and the open beta in November, supporting communities sharing workflows. New features in the near future includes Taverna workflow execution as well as Experiment Objects – these enable you to group together the various digital items associated with an experiment and to handle their provenance. Ultimately the web site software will be downloadable so that you can run your own myExperiment instance — and connect it up with others if you wish.
myExperiment is part of the myGrid consortium, which develops the Taverna workbench for creating and executing scientific workflows, and also builds on CombeChem - two of the original UK e-Science Pilot Projects. The related WHIP (Triana enactment) activity in Cardiff is supported by the OMII-UK Commissioned Software Programme.
Lead institutions
- University of Southampton
- University of Manchester
Project partner