1. Capturing Process:Promise and Challenges.

2. http://www.ickr.com/photos/davidcjones/1422043515 3. The first step... http://www.ickr.com/photos/laprimadonna/3611292727/ 4. ...is to admit we have http://www.ickr.com/photos/schnurrbart/43568532/ CC-BY-SA 5. Submissions to Genbank 100,000,000,00075,000,000,00050,000,000,00025,000,000,0000 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 6. Average Capacity of Human Scientist 5.00 3.75 2.50 1.25 0 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 7. The human scientist(thats us)Does. Not. Scale. 8. The web scales 9. I need help! 10. ...RDF...XML.... JSON...Rest...Atom Pub...RSS..SOAP... Java...xmlns 11. ? 12. ...... 13. ...computers...dontI have a nephew who can do that? 14. OBI...Mibbi...FuGE...OBO...RDF ...standards...XML.. ...standards.. 15. ...wibble... 16. Youre not a proper scientist unless you do it our way... 17. http://www.ickr.com/photos/tranchis/3708549622 18. I want to record the work from my group so I can ndit again. 19. I want to be ableto communicate knowledge clearly 20. I want to record the work from my group so I can ndit again. 21. ...... 22. I want to be able to take your data and do cool stuff with it 23. You mean otherpeople might use our work? Cant be having that! 24. You mean otherpeople might use our work? Cant be having that! 25. You mean other people might use our work? Thats really exciting! 26. 1. Capture 2. Communicate Communicate Process 27. Capture research objects... 28. ...publish to the web... 29. ...in most appropriate form 30. ...but useful sharing is harder than publishing http://www.ickr.com/photos/missrogue/107787363 31. ...need agreed structure http://www.ickr.com/photos/slaw/222795669 32. Machines need structure http://www.ickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/2463225297 33. ....humans tell stories 34. Capture research objects 35. Publish 36. Capture structure through story telling 37. A story. 38. MyTea project:A fully semanticlaboratory recordfor chemistry http://mytea.org.uk/ 39. But not molecular biology 40. General MyTea Specic Unstructured Structured 41. General ?MyTea Specic Unstructured Structured 42. General Blogs ?MyTea Specic Unstructured Structured 43. A recipe for chaos? http://www.ickr.com/photos/benuski/3452291541 44. Yes to start with... 45. But then something interesting happened... 46. Templates Metadata 47. Self assembling ontology?Sequence ontology:SO:0000696 oligoSO:0000155 plasmid ...but... SO:0000006 PCR productorSO:0000412 rest. fragment? 48. Capture first... http://www.ickr.com/photos/furtwangl/3851841424 49. Dionaea muscipula Musca domesticachomped on ...then add structure 50. Map our process ontoagreed vocabularies 51. ...when we tell the story http://www.ickr.com/photos/tnarik/366393127 52. Tools that capture structure as we choose the pieces for our narrative 53. Tools that exploit structure where it already exists 54. Instruments as bloggers... 55. Tools to tell stories? 56. Tools to wire up the objects? 57. Tools to connect to services? 58. Google Wave as a Solution 59. Euan Adies Igor Robot User conversation withservices 60. ChemSpidey Linking identifiers todatabases 61. Workflows Robots can interact witheach other easily 62. The potential 63. Natural user interaction Easy user interaction with web services and databasesPer user, per experiment, per group storage of information 64. Problems... 65. The client.User understanding. 66. Conclusions. 67. Average Capacity of Human Scientist 5.00 3.75 2.50 1.25 0 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 68. I need help! 69. Machines need structure http://www.ickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/2463225297 70. ....humans tell stories 71. Tools to capture... 72. ...tools and services to publish... 73. ...tools to capture structure...as we tell the story 74. Capturing. 75. Communication. 76. Two different things. 77. Less of this... http://www.ickr.com/photos/tranchis/3708549622 78. ...more of thishttp://www.ickr.com/photos/chadmiller/2740551034