Happy New Year!

It looks like 2010 is going to be a busy year for OMII-UK.

New Collaborations

We kick off the year with news of the Collaborations Workshop, an event which will bring together the knowledge, contacts and information needed to generate successful e-Research partnerships. The workshop will be held on 10-11 March 2010 and registration is now open.

New Software

Our Commissioned Software Programme continues to produce the e-Research software that is needed by the research community. There will be at least four new additions to our catalogue with more being announced during 2010:

• DataMinx enables the transfer of large quantities of data in a scalable manner between different types of storage resources (GridFTP, SRB, iRODS, SRM, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, HTTP(S), local file) and will be available for NGS users.
• DiGS/SRM will allow the UK Quantum Chromodynamics community to use community storage facilities, and transfer this functionality to other DiGS user communities.
• Enhancing CIAS will develop an existing assessment model for global climate policy to meet the needs of current users, and will add interfaces to allow access to a new set of users.
• OSCAR-ChEBI will develop the OSCAR chemical-text-mining software to meet the needs of the European Bioinformatics Institute.

New Partners

Apart from our new commissioned software partners, 2010 will also see our new PALs (Product/Area Liaisons) joining our established PALs team. The new PALs, Jeremy Cohen and Shantenu Jha, will help to establish OMII-UK software within their user communities.

New Expertise

We will continue to bring together software developers with researchers that want to take advantage of the latest e-Research techniques, and we will continue to participate with the leading e-Research, grid, HPC and standards organisations. We will also be taking part as one of the expert groups in JISC's technical review of cloud computing for research.

If you would like more information about OMII-UK or you would like to collaborate with us, please email support@omii.ac.uk.

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Created by s.hettrick@omii.ac.uk on 2010-01-08

Last modified on 2010-01-08