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Access Grid learns to dance

• Access Grid finds a new use in the performing arts.

Making Access Grid easy

• Portlet Access Grid overcomes Access Grid's accessibility problems.

News in brief

• The big issues facing e-Research, ADMIRE project, OGSA-DAI for UNICORE and gLite, Facelift fo the OMII-UK website and Google Summer of Code 2008.

Application-driven development improves OGSA-DAI

• First success of OGSA-DAI's application-driven development project.

T-Rex roars into life

• T-Rex plug-in allows Taverna to separate the design and execution of workflows.

New users attracted by NGS roadshow

• NGS Roadshow brings in a crowd at the University of Southampton.

Cancer experts choose Taverna

• caBIG project choose Taverna for its ease of use and extend it to GT4.

OMII-SAGA: a simple programming interface for e-Researchers

• The need for application-level abstractions that provide the functionality needed to access and coordinate distributed computational resources is fulfilled by OMII-SAGA.

OMII-Europe’s ‘bridges’ help the fight against malaria

• OMII-Europe rescue scientists from their 'Grid-Islands' and in the process accelerate research into a cure for malaria.

New portlets for transparent access and manipulation of databases

• New OGSA-DAI portlets make data access, data management and data integration easier.

Users help to improve e-Research

• The Engage project begins to reap results.

An e-Infrastructure for Geosciences

• The GEO Grid project aims to solve global-scale problems, such as environmental conservation, resource exploration and natural disaster prevention.