[kepler-users] myExperiment.org

[Matthew Jones]

Hi Paul,

We're very aware of myExperiment, but thanks for the pointer.  They've 
done excellent work on the social networking aspect of sharing 
workflows, and their site reflects their emphasis there.  The Kepler 
Component Repository (http://library.kepler-project.org) is intended to 
serve the same purpose, but is mainly meant to be used from within 
Kepler at this point (via the "Upload to Repository..." menu). 
Components are saved along with their semantic types and their 
documentation in the workflow definition. Once components are uploaded 
to the Kepler repository, they can be searched and found along with all 
of the other components that ship with Kepler by checking "Search 
repository" in the components tab, and can just be dragged onto the 
canvas for use just like a local component.  This makes it very 
convenient to use while designing workflows.

We haven't concentrated much on the web interface for the Kepler 
Component Repository.  It needs a lot of UI magic before it could match 
what has been done for myExperiment.

We've considered trying to get Kepler to also use myExperiment, but that 
would require some changes to myExperiment to allow it to accept Kepler 
workflows via KAR files, which play the same role as myExperiment's 
archive file format.  We'd also have to agree upon a communication API 
-- Kepler uses the EarthGrid web services API, which is also used for 
our data service interfaces.  I'm not sure whether myExperiment uses 
their own API or a more commonly adopted one.

We have applied for the Google Summer of Code, and one of our proposed 
projects is to develop a Kepler-> myExperiment bridge -- we'll see if a 
student is interested in that project.
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/gsoc/ideas/

Matt

Paul Allen wrote:
> I ran across an interesting site the other day. It is 
> http://www.myexperiment.org/. It acts as a place to share and discuss 
> Taverna workflows. I've had an email exchange with one of the site 
> authors and they say they are contemplating how/whether to also support 
> Kepler workflows (as well as other systems).
> 
> Thought you all may be interested.
> 
> - Paul
> 
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