The myGrid team produce and use a suite of tools designed to "help e-Scientists get on with science and get on with scientists". The tools support the creation of e-laboratories and have been used in domains as diverse as biology, social science, music, astronomy, text mining and chemistry. The tools have been adopted by a large number of projects and institutions.
The team has developed tools and infrastructure to allow:
* the design, editing and execution of workflows in Taverna
* the sharing of workflows and related data by myExperiment
* the cataloguing and annotation of services in BioCatalogue and Feta
* the creation of user-friendly rich clients such as UTOPIA
research become meaningful only after confronting results with the scientific community
peer-reviewed publication is the best communication channel we had so far
new communication channels complement peer-reviewed publication
two important attributes in which they differ from traditional models: openness and communication time
increased openness and shorter communication time happens already in publishing industry (via Open Access movement and experiments with alternative/shorter ways of peer-review)
say few words about experiments that go little or quite a lot beyond publication
My Experiment as an example of an important step towards openness
least radical idea you can find in modern Science 2.0 world
virtual research environment
focus is put on sharing scientific workflows
use case
diagram of the “methods” sections from experimental (including bioinformatics analyses) publications
make it easier for others to understand what we did
can open towards other scientists we can also open towards non-experts
people from all over the world compete in improving structural models of proteins
helps in improving protein structure prediction software and in understanding protein folding
combine teaching and data annotation
metagenome sequences in first case and chemistry spectra in the second
interactive visualizations of chemical structures, genomes, proteins or multidimensional data
communicate some difficult concepts faster
new approaches in conference reporting
report in real time from the conference
followed by a number of people, including even the ones that were already on the conference
“open notebook science” which means conducting research using publicly available, immediately updated laboratory notebook
The reason I did a model for Cameron’s grant was that I subscribed to his feed before
I didn’t subscribe to Cameron because I knew his professional profile
I read his blog, I commented on it and he commented on mine, etc.
participation in online communities
important part of Science 2.0 is the fact that it has human face
PhDs about the same time
first was from a major Polish institute, the second from a major European one
what a head of a lab both would apply to will see
gap we must fill, this is between current research and lectures we give today
access to real-time scientific conversation
follow current research and decide what is important to learn
synthetic biology
not all universities in world have synthetic biology courses
didn’t stop these students, and they plan to participate in IGEM again
not only scientists – there are librarians, science communicators, editors from scientific journals, people working in biotech industry