News In Brief

Back to index page

Previous article: Copying and clouds

Next article: New Taverna release

OMII-UK awarded further funding

As this issue of our newsletter goes to press, I am delighted to announce that OMII-UK has been awarded funding by EPSRC to continue our work to cultivate and support community software for research.

The funding will continue our community building and outreach, as well as ensuring the continuation of our core development to support software. The UK National Grid Service has also received funding and we look forward to a continued collaboration with them.

Software sustainability is an issue that is being considered on both sides of the Atlantic, with the US National Science Foundation bringing together organisations from around the world (including OMII-UK) to define policy. In the UK, the newly formed Infrastructure SAT (Strategic Advisory Team) is advising EPSRC on a strategy that encompasses both e-Science and High Performance Computing and we hope that this will lead to new opportunities for OMII-UK to support innovative research by ensuring the right software is always available.

Help us develop e-Research software

Would you like to help guide the future of e-Research software development? OMII-UK is organising a two-day Collaborations Workshop at NeSC in Edinburgh, starting on 30 April 2009. The workshop will be based on a flexible agenda: allowing you to suggest topics for discussion so that the subjects important to your research are represented.

The Collaborations Workshop will bring together OMII-UK staff, software developers, architects and users. It will be based on developing collaborative solutions, or approaches, to interesting e-Research problems/issues.

Info: http://www.tinyurl.com/d8sr5r Register: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/958

Jim Gray award for Carole Goble

Professor Carole Goble, one of OMII-UK’s Principle Investigators, was the recipient of the inaugural Jim Gray award at the 2008 Microsoft eScience Conference in Indianapolis.

Carole was chosen for the award in recognition of her contributions to e-Science, in particular, the development of tools such as Taverna and myExperiment, and their application across a wide range of scientific domains.

http://www.tinyurl.com/clzmr8

e-Science: the Changing Landscape

The e-Science landscape has changed significantly over the past few years, so it is a good time to consider these changes to ensure the effective embedding of e-Science.

The e-Science workshop will discuss the issues facing the e-Science community. The workshop is being organised by NeSC and will take place on 16-17 April 2009. The first day of the workshop is open to e-Science Directors, and the second day will be open to university IT service providers, and e-Science and HPC researchers. The second day will focus on meeting the researchers and will include: success stories, reports on user requirements from eUptake and a half-day village market where OMII-UK and others will present demonstrations.

http://www.tinyurl.com/bfkfnw

Data Integration in the Life Sciences

Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) 2009 takes place on 20 June this year. It is the sixth workshop in a series that aims at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the areas of data integration and data management for the life sciences. The DILS workshop provides a forum for the discussion of emerging challenges for data integration in the life sciences, and the techniques that seek to address them.

http://www.tinyurl.com/boteqc