myExperiment

myExperiment

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Description	myExperiment
Contact
Research center	School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Primary citation	Goble & al. (2010)[1]
Access
Website	http://www.myexperiment.org

myExperiment is a social web site for researchers sharing Research Objects such as Scientific Workflows.^[2][3][4][5]

The myExperiment website was launched in November 2007 and contains a significant collection of scientific workflows for a variety of workflow systems, most notably Taverna, but also other tools such as Bioclipse. myExperiment has a REST API and is based on an open source Ruby on Rails codebase. It supports Linked data and has a SPARQL Endpoint, with an interactive tutorial.^[6][7][8]

The myExperiment project is directed by David De Roure at University of Oxford and is one of the activities of the myGrid consortium led by Carole Goble of The University of Manchester, UK and of the e-Research South UK regional consortium led by the Oxford e-Research Centre. It was originally funded by Jisc under the Virtual Research Environment programme and by the Microsoft Technical Computing Initiative. myExperiment is being enhanced by the workflows for ever project (Wf4Ever)^[9][10] which aims to provide new features to support the preservation of Research Objects in conjunction with the dLibra digital library framework.^[11][12]

References

1. Goble, C. A.; Bhagat, J.; Aleksejevs, S.; Cruickshank, D.; Michaelides, D.; Newman, D.; Borkum, M.; Bechhofer, S.; Roos, M.; Li, P.; De Roure, D. (2010). "MyExperiment: A repository and social network for the sharing of bioinformatics workflows". Nucleic Acids Research 38 (Web Server issue): W677–W682. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq429. PMC 2896080. PMID 20501605.
2. Bechhofer, S.; Buchan, I.; De Roure, D.; Missier, P.; Ainsworth, J.; Bhagat, J.; Couch, P.; Cruickshank, D.; Delderfield, M.; Dunlop, I.; Gamble, M.; Michaelides, D.; Owen, S.; Newman, D.; Sufi, S.; Goble, C. (2011). "Why linked data is not enough for scientists". Future Generation Computer Systems 29 (2): 599. doi:10.1016/j.future.2011.08.004.
3. De Roure, D.; Goble, C.; Stevens, R. (2009). "The design and realisation of the myExperiment Virtual Research Environment for social sharing of workflows". Future Generation Computer Systems 25 (5): 561–567. doi:10.1016/j.future.2008.06.010.
4. Roure, D. D.; Goble, C.; Bhagat, J.; Cruickshank, D.; Goderis, A.; Michaelides, D.; Newman, D. (2008). "MyExperiment: Defining the Social Virtual Research Environment": 182–189. doi:10.1109/eScience.2008.86.
5. De Roure, D.; Goble, C. (2009). "Software Design for Empowering Scientists". IEEE Software 26: 88–95. doi:10.1109/MS.2009.22.
6. Gewin, Virginia (2008). "The new networking nexus: A crop of websites is making networking among scientists easier than ever". Nature 451 (7181): 1024–1025. doi:10.1038/nj7181-1024a. PMID 18363200.
7. Hendler, J. (2008). "Reinventing Academic Publishing, Part 3". IEEE Intelligent Systems 23: 2–3. doi:10.1109/MIS.2008.12.
8. Stein, L. D. (2008). "Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: Progress, visions and challenges". Nature Reviews Genetics 9 (9): 678–688. doi:10.1038/nrg2414. PMID 18714290.
9. "Home - wf4ever". Retrieved 2012-06-19.
10. Bechhofer, S.; Buchan, I.; De Roure, D.; Missier, P.; Ainsworth, J.; Bhagat, J.; Couch, P.; Cruickshank, D.; Delderfield, M.; Dunlop, I.; Gamble, M.; Michaelides, D.; Owen, S.; Newman, D.; Sufi, S.; Goble, C. (2011). "Why linked data is not enough for scientists". Future Generation Computer Systems 29 (2): 599. doi:10.1016/j.future.2011.08.004.
11. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225745.500-myspace-for-the-dudes-in-lab-coats.html MySpace for the dudes in lab coats in New Scientist magazine, issue 2574, page 29. 21 October 2006.
12. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=404834 Times Higher Education article "Log on to a global laboratory: web 2.0 tools allow researchers to share ideas, data and results" by Sarah Collinson and Zoe Corbyn in the "Research intelligence" section, page 22 (1 January 2009).