myExperiment - enables you and your colleagues to share digital items associated with your research

Posted on May 10, 2008
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One of the main problems I had at university was sharing knowledge especially concerning experiments and projects. Fortunately there is now a solution for it. The myExperiment Virtual Research Environment enables you and your colleagues to share digital items associated with your research; in particular it enables you to share and execute scientific workflows.

You can use myexperiment.org to find publicly shared workflows. If you want further access, and the ability to upload and share workflows, you will need to sign up. The software that powers myexperiment.org is downloadable so that you can run your own myExperiment instance.

myExperiment is brought to you by a joint team from the universities of Southampton and Manchester in the UK, led by David De Roure and Carole Goble, and is funded by JISC under the Virtual Research Environments programme and by Microsoft’s Technical Computing Initiative. myExperiment is part of the myGrid consortium, which develops the Taverna workbench for creating and executing scientific workflows, and also builds on CombeChem - two of the original UK e-Science Pilot Projects.

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