| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/T27457/01 |
| Title: |
myIB |
| Principal Investigator: |
Mr D Mac Randal |
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| Department: |
Business & Information Technology |
| Organisation: |
STFC - Laboratories |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
01 February 2005 |
Ends: |
31 March 2006 |
Value (£): |
133,887
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Information and communication technologies: Artificial Intelligence Technologies |
Information and communication technologies: Information and Knowledge Management |
| Tools, technologies and methods: Bioinformatics |
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| EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
| Healthcare |
Information Technologies |
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Summary |
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This project builds on the two e-Science Pilot projects, myGrid and Integrative Biology. Exploiting the outputs from myGrid, best practice in handling complex in-silico biological experiments will be integrated into the infrastructure developed in Integrative Biology for large multi-scale simulations. Specifically, myGrid components and techniques dealing with the composition, workflow and data / provenance management of biological experiments will be extended firstly to support the computationally intensive services typical in Integrative biology and secondly to enable the workflow to be dynamically modified as the experiment progresses. This should enable scientists to steer the whole experimental process and to provide the necessary information management facilities to make it useful. In order to make this "best practice" available to other scientists, the resulting enhanced software components will be generalized and submitted to the OMII repository of middleware components. The project investigators are all investigators in either myGrid or Integrative Biology, and the work will be carried out at CCLRC, the IT-Innovation Centre at Southampton University and the Department of Computer Science at Manchester University.
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| Final Report Summary |
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This project has indeed been successful in transferring best practice, in the shape of explicit workflow support, from the myGrid project to the scientists in the IB project. Starting with the existing technology from myGrid and input from two scientific teams from IB, a number of small but significant enhancements were made to the workflow and provenance capture components. This enables IB scientists to build workflows which exploit HPC resources, and use these workflows to both record what was done and to support communication with and training of other scientists. The resulting system was demonstrated to the full IB user group and attracted considerable interest. It is currently part of the IB suite of tools, and further integration and extension work is being carried out within the IB project.
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| Further Information: |
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.stfc.ac.uk |