Projects

Current Projects

^myGrid: Supporting data intensive in silico experiments in bioinformatics. Producing a virtual laboratory workbench to serve the life sciences community. Originally an EPSRC e-Science Pilot Project. myGrid is now funded through a follow-on Platform Grant and as part of OMII-UK.
OntoGrid: Fundamental investigations into the architecture of the Semantic Grid. EU FP6 STREP. Technical Director.
PsyGrid: To provide resources to clinicians, researchers and others interested in first episode psychosis. e-Science project sponsored by the Medical Research Council and the Department of Health.
ESNW: E-Science North West regional e-Science centre. One of the National e-Science Centres throughout Great Britain, ESNW co-ordinates research based projects between academic and industrial collaborators.

The myTea Best Practice project is about taking the lessons learned from the Smart Tea project in CombeChem and applying that within the ^myGrid e-Science project's work to support Bioinformaticians.
The myIB EPSRC e-Science Best Practice project with Integrative Biology to transfer the Taverna workflow, provenance recording and LSID know-how from myGrid to the Integrative Biology project.
Rapid Prototyping: EPSRC e-Science Best Practice project rapid development of Grid middleware, with RealityGrid and Integrative Biology
Link-Up: EPSRC e-science sisters networking project, networking myGrid with the BIRN project at San Diego Supercomputing Centre, UC at Davis, Interactive Knowledge Capture group in ISI at Uni Southern California and the BioMOBY project
ISPIDER: An insilico proteome integrated data Grid. e-Science project sponsored by the BBSRC Bioinformatics and E-Science programme.
COHSE: Conceptual Open Hypermedia Support Environment. Sun Microsystems.
Knowledge Web: Network of Excellence on the Semantic Web. EU FP6. Research Area Manager with Rudi Studer.
CO-ODE/HyOntUse: Collaborative Open Ontology Development Environment for OWL ontologies