[Myexperiment-discuss] RE: myExperiment at WebSci 10 and WWW 2010 this week

[David De Roure]

We're pleased to announce that an article on myExperiment has just been 
published online for the 2010 Web Server issue of Nucleic Acids Research.

The abstract is on 

        http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/gkq429

with links to the full text.

The citation for this paper is

Goble, C.A., Bhagat, J., Aleksejevs, S., Cruickshank, D., Michaelides, D., 
Newman, D., Borkum, M., Bechhofer, S., Roos, M., Li, P., and De Roure, D.: 
myExperiment: a repository and social network for the sharing of bioinformatics 
workflows, Nucl. Acids Res., 2010. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq429

This paper accompanies a BioCatalogue paper in the same issue - see

        http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/gkq394 

Thanks to the team for help with this paper, and especially to Peter Li who led 
the submission.

-- Dave

Abstract

myExperiment (http://www.myexperiment.org) is an online research environment 
that supports the social sharing of bioinformatics workflows. These workflows 
are procedures consisting of a series of computational tasks using web 
services, which may be performed on data from its retrieval, integration and 
analysis, to the visualization of the results. As a public repository of 
workflows, myExperiment allows anybody to discover those that are relevant to 
their research, which can then be reused and repurposed to their specific 
requirements. Conversely, developers can submit their workflows to myExperiment 
and enable them to be shared in a secure manner. Since its release in 2007, 
myExperiment currently has over 3500 registered users and contains more than 
1000 workflows. The social aspect to the sharing of these workflows is 
facilitated by registered users forming virtual communities bound together by a 
common interest or research project. Contributors of workflows can build their 
reputation within these communities by receiving feedback and credit from 
individuals who reuse their work. Further documentation about myExperiment 
including its REST web service is available from http://wiki.myexperiment.org. 
Feedback and requests for support can be sent to address@hidden