If the included Youtube videoes are not playing, then download this presentation as PPTX to see the embedded videos, alternatively see the Skydrive version: https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=37935FEEE4DF1087!641&app=PowerPoint Videoes: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs1PhQrR0xxH3j-f6FXU2cp9fBVTDrl6T Presented at NETTAB 2013. Published abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2787 More info: http://dev.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/display/tav/Taverna+Mobile Researchers are often on the move, say at conferences or projects meetings, and as workflows are becoming ubiquitous in the scientific process, having access to scientific workflows from a mobile device would be a significant advantage. We therefore have developed Taverna Mobile, an application for Android phones which allows browsing of existing workflows, executing them, and reviewing the results. Taverna Mobile does not aim to reproduce the full experience of building workflows in the Taverna Workbench, rather it focuses on tasks we have deemed relevant to a scientist that is not at her desk. For instance, when visiting a conference she might hear about someone's workflow, which she can quickly locate and mark for later exploration. When in the biology lab, faced with updated scientific data, the scientist can rerun her own workflow with new inputs. While commuting, she can monitor the status of a long-running job.

1. Taverna Mobile: Taverna
workflows on Android
Hyde Zhang, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Carole Goble
myGrid, University of Manchester
http://www.taverna.org.uk/
Twitter: @soilandreyes
NETTAB 2013, Venice, 2013-10-18
This work is licensed under a
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License

2. Taverna workflows
http://www.taverna.org.uk/

3. Executing workflows

4. Provenance of workflow results
Provenance WG
Copyright © 2013 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio, Beihang), All Rights Reserved.
http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-primer/

5. Sharing workflows:
myExperiment
http://www.myexperiment.org/

6. Goal: Find and run
workflows anywhere

7. Browsing
workflow
s

8. Running
a
workflow

9. Logging in to
myExperiment
My workflows
Running own workflows again
and again
Favourites
Mark as favourite on the
myExperiment website on
interesting workflows by others
Run later from mobile

10. Rerun –
reuse
parameters

11. Existing runs
on the
Taverna
Server

12. Design workflow
Architecture
Upload workflow definition
Retrieve workflow
and metadata
Upload workflow
and inputs
Execute workflow,
calling remote services
Retrieve status and outputs

13. Why not a mobile web app?
Started as BSc third year project 
Android SDK is mature
Already had Java client library for Taverna Server
Integration with Dropbox and Google Drive (using
Android Intents)

14. Open source
Taverna Mobile – Apache License 2.0
https://github.com/myGrid/taverna-mobile
Taverna – LGPL 2.1
http://www.taverna.org.uk/developers/taverna-2-x/sourcecode/

15. Status and plans
Now: Alpha testing
(contact @soilandreyes or
support@mygrid.org.uk)
Planned features:
Custom Taverna Server (run workflow in your lab)
Load example input values
December 2013: Release on Play Store

16. Acknowledgements
Hyde Zhang – Taverna Mobile
Carole Goble – Supervisor, myGrid
Robert Haines – Taverna Server client library
Alan R Williams – Taverna Workbench++
Donal K Fellows – Taverna Server
Paul Fisher – had the original idea
myGrid Platform Grant. EPSRC EP/G026238/1
European Commission’s 7th FWP FP7-ICT-2007-6 270192
ScreenScraper Pro
NETTAB 2013

17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aber
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Cost Action: Publishing
Academic and Research Data
(PARD)
COST is a mechanism in the EU to
fund networking activities on
topics in science and technology –
meetings, workshops, short term Topics:
scientific missions…bringing
• Development of the core principles of
people together
>50 people interested
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Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Polan •
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sarah.callaghan@stfc.ac.uk
@sorcha_ni
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data publication
Sharing the experiences of data
publication
Coordination around mechanisms for
cross-referencing and citation/linking
between data and publications
Implications for the assessment of
scientific research through metrics
Development of data publication
workflows.

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