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MyGrid Personalised biological services on the Grid Phillip Lord p.lord@russet.org.uk Department of Computing Science, University of Manchester BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.1/11

What is MyGrid? Funded as part of the UK governments “E-Science” initiative. “The goal of MyGrid is to design, develop and demon- strate higher level functionalities over an existing Grid infrastructure that support scientists in making use of complex distributed resources.” BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.2/11

But what actually is MyGrid? What do we have to cope with? BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.3/11

But what actually is MyGrid? What do we have to cope with? • Distributed Services • Heterogeneous Services • Combining Many Services BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.3/11

But what actually is MyGrid? What do we have to cope with? • Distributed Services • Heterogeneous Services • Combining Many Services Similar issues to bioMoby, and webservices. BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.3/11

How can we help? • Dynamic Service Discovery • Metadata • Workflow • Personalisation • Provenance BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.4/11

Dynamic Service Discovery What services are available? BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.5/11

Dynamic Service Discovery What services are available? What kinds of services are available? BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.5/11

Metadata • Service discovery without free text search. • More or less specific searching... “give me a BLAST service”, “give me a sequence similarity search”. • Allow sanity checking. “does searching SWISS-PROT with DNA sequence make sense”. BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.6/11

Workflow How can we connect multiple services together? BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.7/11

Workflow How can we connect multiple services together? How do we co-ordinate workflow enactment with the user? BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.7/11

Personalisation Different people have different views on the data. BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.8/11

Personalisation Different people have different views on the data. Different people have different ways of performing analysis. BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.8/11

Provenance How did I do that? BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.9/11

Provenance How did I do that? Why did I do that? BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.9/11

Current Status 0.1 release sometime in September. Hope to provide basic access to services. Access to CVS about the same time. http://www.mygrid.info/ BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.10/11

Contributors Matthew Addis, Nedim Alpdemir, Rich Cawley, Car- ole Goble, Vijay Dialani, David De Roure, Justin Fer- ris, Rob Gaizauskas, Kevin Glover, Chris Greenhalgh, Mark Greenwood, Peter Li, Xiaojian Liu, Phillip Lord, Michael Luck, Darren Marvin, Simon Miles, Luc Moreau, Tom Oinn, Norman Paton, Stephen Pettifer, Milena V Radenkovic, Angus Roberts, Alan Robinson, Tom Rodden, Martin Senger, Nick Sharman, Robert Stevens, Brian Warboys, Paul Watson, Chris Wroe BOSC 2002 MyGrid – p.11/11