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• #2: {"11":"http://purl.org/wf4ever/model\nResearch Objects (RO) aggregate related resources, their provenance and annotations\nConveys ¡°everything you need to know¡± about a study/experiment/analysis/dataset/workflow\nShareable, evolvable, contributable, citable ROs have their own provenance and lifecycles\n","12":"Hosted resource ¨C no installation tears\nSelf-hosting distribution ¨C locality fears \nServices and/or workflow engine hosted locally or remotely\nHPC/cloud installations avoid cost of local installations on local infrastructures. Some like the comfort of local ownership.\nDeployment Infrastructure of BioVeL\n","1":"Title: Time well spent: Workflows for Environmental Omic Analysis.\nThe contextual analysis of Environmental Omics data is computationally intensive (involving the processing and management of large quantities of data), highly integrative (spanning data from many different disciplines) and rapidly evolving (involving the continuous development of novel methods and technologies). This poses a number of challenges for researchers in the field, including access to appropriate infrastructure, taking advantage of recent advancements and communicating research activities.\nScientific Workflow Management Systems, such as the Taverna Workflow Suite, are a particular class of computer application that manage the design, configuration and execution of repetitive, multi-step analysis processes that are particularly prevalent in Environmental Omics. The system handles the awkward work of accessing the different software and platforms, managing the data and security, handling errors and documenting the process.\nUtilising HPC or cloud installations of Taverna also means that there is no requirement to install tools and data sources locally, which reduces local infrastructure and maintenance costs and enables rapid workflow development and testing. Consequently, large-scale analyses can be performed regardless of local infrastructure.\n?The Taverna Workflow Suite is currently powering the Biodiversity Virtual eLaboratory project (www.biovel.eu), the project is beginning to release a number of useful Environmental Omic workflows in collaboration with Genomic Observatories (http://genomicobservatories.blogspot.co.uk/) and MicroB3 (Ocean Sampling Day. http://www.microb3.eu/news/new-axis-collaboration-biovel-workflows-micro-b3-ocean-sampling-day).\nThis talk will discuss aspects of workflows and the benefits that adopting workflows as an integral part of Environmental Omics analysis can offer to the community including, reproducibility, knowledge exchange and easier access to high performance infrastructure.\n","14":"2001, run by manchester and oxford\n"}