Description
Taverna - VPH-Share workshop 17-18 July 2014
Location
: The Pam Liversidge Building, Sir Frederick Mappin Building – Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
Registration link:
http://bit.ly/vph-share-training
Format
: The workshop is a two-day hands-on training event about workflows in the biomedical arena, with a focus on VPH-Share and Taverna.
Target community & qualifications:
The target community is developers and research scientists working in all areas of biomedical/healthcare research within the University of Sheffield. A desirable but not mandatory pre-requisite for the hands-on training course will be some level of exposure to computer programming.
Objective
: The training event introduces participants to the role of workflows as exemplified by the VPH-Share and Taverna projects, and teach the attendees how to:
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Expose, access and share data, tools and workflows via VPH-Share
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Build cloud applications and wrap tools on the VPH-Share platform
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Register, discover and reuse tools and web services from BioCatalogue and VPH-Share
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Develop scientific workflows locally on the Taverna Workbench and via the VPH-Share portal
Outcomes
: After completion of the course, participants will have registered access to VPH-Share services to support their own research and will:
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Appreciate the role, strengths and weaknesses of workflow-based approaches
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Have an understanding of Taverna and its contribution to workflow design/implementation
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Have an understanding of the VPH-Share infrastructure (Portal, Cloud, Datasets, Applications & Workflows)
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Be able to construct simple workflows in order to support their own research
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Be able to discover and share data, web services and workflows
Tutorial order:
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myGrid tools for scientists
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Taverna Workbench introduction
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XPath tutorial
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Advanced Taverna features
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Introduction to using components
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Help tutorial