Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] MyExperiment and IBVRE

[Carole Goble]

Matthew

Thanks for this wonderful opportunity! We have a myExperiment meeting on 
the team on Tuesday after Easter, and we will discuss our way forward 
with this new opportunity.

Cheers!
Carole

> Dear MyExperiment team,
>
> Are you interested in meeting the needs of the computational biology 
> community with MyExperiment?
>
> We have just completed a VRE project, Integrative Biology VRE - an 
> off-shoot of the Integrative Biology project - to build a web-based in 
> silico experiment repository for a geographically distributed but 
> closely collaborating group of heart modellers, who conduct simulation 
> studies of heart behaviour using the Memfem nonlinear finite element 
> simulation tool  
> <http://virtualheart.bmen.tulane.edu/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LabSoftware>.
>
> I think our user community would be very interested in your concept, 
> especially in introducing ideas such as tagging and the ability to 
> associate experiments with other media such as videos of heart 
> behaviour and related publications.
>
> The website <http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk/ibvre> has details of our work 
> (including our requirements gathering work), and we have recently 
> released the code under a BSD licence on SourceForge (unix name 
> ibvre).  The final report is to be published very shortly on the website.
>
> If there is any scope for incorporating our work into MyExperiment in 
> some way, I would be very happy to put you into contact with the end 
> users we have been working with.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Matthew