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Plenty more fish in the sea?

• Danielle Venton from EGEE describes AquaMaps, a new tool that uses EGEE resources to investigate declining fish stocks

News In Brief

• First OMII-UK Collaborations Workshop is a fantastic success, Grid Integration for Taverna, GridSAM's disaster scenario, BioCatalogue is launched, Grid Summer School 2009, OMII-UK aids new OGF standard.

OGSA-DAI moves into open development

• OGSA-DAI is evolving from an open-source product to an open-development project. Mike Jackson, the new technical lead on the OGSA-DAI project, describes what this change will mean for OGSA-DAI.

Open Source: the next generation

• Michael Micelli, one of last year's Google Summer of Code students, wrote some great new code for OMII-UK's SAGA software. We take a look at this code, and talk about our plans for this year's Google Summer of Code.

A better prognosis thanks to the sharing of genomic data

• Clinicians can now analyse large-scale and complex genetic data using Taverna and High Performance Computing. Mark Delderfield, from Microsoft Shared Genomics, describes how this new system works.

Massive Growth in Chinese freight needs a grid solution

• By 2010, China aims to move 280,000 freight cars on its railways each day. Yan Zhang, a student currently studying at the University of Vienna, is working to provide a grid solution for dealing with the vast amount of data that will be generated.

Interoperation takes a step forward

• A new community group - the Grid Interoperation Now Community Group - looks at what is needed to enable e-Science applications.

The cancer BioInformatics Grid chooses Taverna

• There is currently no way in which cancer researchers can easily share their research. The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, which uses Taverna, aims to rectify this problem.

Cardiology will pump the deep web

• The Deep Web is the name given to three quarters of the Web which is inaccessible to most users. A new application CardioSHARE has been designed to expose Deep Web data to cardiologists.

Rapid portlets are a hit with chemists

• Chemists at the universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews have shown that OMII-UK's Rapid software makes it easy to develop portlets. They have developed portlets that are now used for teaching over 140 students.

A SLiM chance for viruses

• Viruses have evolved a clever way of reproducing. In collaboration with the Engage project, a research group in the University of Southampton are looking to understand viruses so that they can develop better cures.