WOODSS and the Web: annotating and reusing scientific workflows
ACM SIGMOD Record
Aggregation of bioinformatics data using Semantic Web technology
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An ontology-based framework for bioinformatics workflows
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The myGrid ontology: bioinformatics service discovery
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Towards a System-Level Science Support
ICCS '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computational Science, Part I
The data playground: An intuitive workflow specification environment
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Data parallelism in bioinformatics workflows using Hydra
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Seven bottlenecks to workflow reuse and repurposing
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
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ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
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EGC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 European conference on Advances in Grid Computing
An identity crisis in the life sciences
IPAW'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Provenance and Annotation of Data
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Motivation:In silico experiments necessitate the virtual organization of people, data, tools and machines. The scientific process also necessitates an awareness of the experience base, both of personal data as well as the wider context of work. The management of all these data and the co-ordination of resources to manage such virtual organizations and the data surrounding them needs significant computational infra-structure support. Results: In this paper, we show that myGrid, middleware for the Semantic Grid, enables biologists to perform and manage in silico experiments, then explore and exploit the results of their experiments. We demonstrate myGrid in the context of a series of bioinformatics experiments focused on a 1.5 Mb region on chromosome 7 which is deleted in Williams--Beuren syndrome (WBS). Due to the highly repetitive nature of sequence flanking/in the WBS critical region (WBSCR), sequencing of the region is incomplete leaving documented gaps in the released sequence. myGrid was used in a series of experiments to find newly sequenced human genomic DNA clones that extended into these 'gap' regions in order to produce a complete and accurate map of the WBSCR. Once placed in this region, these DNA sequences were analysed with a battery of prediction tools in order to locate putative genes and regulatory elements possibly implicated in the disorder. Finally, any genes discovered were submitted to a range of standard bioinformatics tools for their characterization. We report how myGrid has been used to create workflows for these in silico experiments, run those workflows regularly and notify the biologist when new DNA and genes are discovered. The myGrid services collect and co-ordinate data inputs and outputs for the experiment, as well as much provenance information about the performance of experiments on WBS. Availability: The myGrid software is available via http://www.mygrid.org.uk