myExperiment

myExperiment is a social web site for researchers sharing Research Objects such as Scientific Workflows. The www.myexperiment.org Website was launched in November 2007 and contains a significant collection of scientific workflows for a variety of workflow systems, most notably Taverna, but also other tools such as Bioclipse. myExperiment has a REST API and is based on an open source Ruby on Rails codebase.

The myExperiment project is directed by David De Roure at University of Oxford and is one of the activities of the myGrid consortium, which is led by Carole Goble of The University of Manchester, UK. It is funded by JISC under the Virtual Research Environment programme and by the Microsoft Technical Computing Initiative.

Mentions in publications

• MySpace for the dudes in lab coats in New Scientist magazine, issue 2574, page 29. 21 October 2006.
• Gewin, V. (2008). "The new networking nexus". Nature 451 (7181): 1024–1025. doi:10.1038/nj7181-1024a. PMID 18363200.  edit
• Hendler, J. (2008). "Reinventing Academic Publishing, Part 3". IEEE Intelligent Systems 23: 2–3. doi:10.1109/MIS.2008.12.  edit by Jim Hendler
• Stein, L. D. (2008). "Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: Progress, visions and challenges". Nature Reviews Genetics 9 (9): 678–688. doi:10.1038/nrg2414. PMID 18714290.  edit by Lincoln Stein
• THE article "Log on to a global laboratory: web 2.0 tools allow researchers to share ideas, data and results" by Sarah Collinson and Zoe Corbyn in the "Research intelligence" section, page 22 (1 January 2009).

Subscription-only articles

A full list of publications is available on the myExperiment Wiki [1].

• De Roure, D.; Goble, C.; Stevens, R. (2009). "The design and realisation of the Experimentmy Virtual Research Environment for social sharing of workflows". Future Generation Computer Systems 25 (5): 561–567. doi:10.1016/j.future.2008.06.010.  edit
• Roure, D. D.; Goble, C.; Bhagat, J.; Cruickshank, D.; Goderis, A.; Michaelides, D.; Newman, D. (2008). MyExperiment: Defining the Social Virtual Research Environment. pp. 182–189. doi:10.1109/eScience.2008.86.  edit
• De Roure, D.; Goble, C. (2009). "Software Design for Empowering Scientists". IEEE Software 26: 88–95. doi:10.1109/MS.2009.22.  edit

External links

• myExperiment
• myExperiment wiki