Accelerating Time to Experiment – The myExperiment Approach to Open Science David De Roure Carole Goble Jiten Bhagat

scientists Local Web Repositories Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Virtual Learning Environment Technical Reports Reprints Peer- Reviewed Journal & Conference Papers Preprints & Metadata Certified Experimental Results & Analyses experimentation Data, Metadata Provenance Workflows Ontologies Digital Libraries The social process of Science 2.0

What is it? How we built it Towards the e-Laboratory

What is it?

Kepler Triana BPEL Ptolemy II Taverna Trident

Paul writes workflows for identifying biological pathways implicated in resistance to Trypanosomiasis in cattle Paul meets Jo. Jo is investigating Whipworm in mouse. Jo reuses one of Paul’s workflow without change. Jo identifies the biological pathways involved in sex dependence in the mouse model, believed to be involved in the ability of mice to expel the parasite. Previously a manual two year study by Jo had failed to do this. Reuse, Recycling, Repurposing

myExperiment.org is… “Facebook for Scientists”...but different to Facebook! A community social network Fine control over sharing A federated repository A gateway to other publishing environments A platform for launching workflows Started March 2007 Closed beta since July 2007 Open beta November 2007 Go to to access publicly available content or create an accountwww.myexperiment.org myExperiment.org is... myExperiment currently has 1331 registered users, 114 groups, 536 workflows, 147 files and 40 packs

myExperiment.org is… User Profiles Groups Friends Sharing Tags Workflows Developer interface Credits and Attributions Fine control over privacy Packs Federation Enactment myExperiment Features

Ownership and Attribution The most important aspect of myExperiment Designed by scientists The most important aspect of myExperiment Designed by scientists

Packs Packs allow you to collect different items together, like you might with a "wish list" or "shopping basket" You can collect internal things (such as workflows, files and even other packs) as well as link to things outside myExperiment Your packs can then be shared, tagged, discovered and discussed easily on myExperiment

How we built it

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Search Engine reviews ratings groups friendships tags Enactor files workflows ` HTML For Developers RDF Store SPARQL endpoint Managed REST API facebookiGoogleandroid XML API config mySQL profiles packs credits

For Developers All the myExperiment services are accessible through simple RESTful programming interfaces use your existing environment and augment it with myExperiment functionality build entirely new interfaces and functionality mashups The open source Web 2.0 Software that powers the myexperiment.org web site is downloadable so you can run your own myExperiment – perhaps for your own lab or projects Go to wiki.myexperiment.org for information about our Developer Communitywiki.myexperiment.org

Google Gadgets Bringing myExperiment to the iGoogle user

Taverna Plugin Bringing myExperiment to the Taverna user

Facebook

Silverlight

PREFIX rdf: PREFIX myexp: PREFIX sioc: select ?friend1 ?friend2 ?acceptedat where {?z rdf:type. ?z myexp:has-requester ?x. ?x sioc:name ?friend1. ?z myexp:has-accepter ?y. ?y sioc:name ?friend2. ?z myexp:accepted-at ?acceptedat } All accepted Friendships including accepted-at time Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities

1.Fit in, Don’t Force Change 2.Jam today and more jam tomorrow 3.Just in Time and Just Enough 4.Act Local, think Global 5.Enable Users to Add Value 6.Design for Network Effects 1.Fit in, Don’t Force Change 2.Jam today and more jam tomorrow 3.Just in Time and Just Enough 4.Act Local, think Global 5.Enable Users to Add Value 6.Design for Network Effects Six Principles of Software Design to Empower Scientists 1.Keep your Friends Close 2.Embed 3.Keep Sight of the Bigger Picture 4.Favours will be in your Favour 5.Know your users 6.Expect and Anticipate Change 1.Keep your Friends Close 2.Embed 3.Keep Sight of the Bigger Picture 4.Favours will be in your Favour 5.Know your users 6.Expect and Anticipate Change De Roure, D. and Goble, C. (2009) Six Principles of Software Design to Empower Scientists. IEEE Software (in press)

Towards the e-Laboratory

Workflow Monitoring Event Logging Social Metadata Annotation Service Search User Registration Distributed Data Query Job Execution Naming and Identity Anonymisation Text Mining e-Lab Services

Research Objects

Reflections myExperiment provides social infrastructure – it facilitates sharing and enables scientists to collaborate in order to compete myExperiment has growing community and growing content Supports Taverna, Trident, UsefulChem,... Kepler, Meandre next... Scale makes discovery more difficult and easier! Could share R, matlab, statistical models,... We are targetting how we believe research will be conducted in the future Research Objects are emerging

Contact David De Roure Carole Goble Thanks The myGrid Family, National Centre for e-Social Science, CombeChem, Scientific Workflow Community