You don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car anymore, and neither should you have to be a bioinformatician to use data (Allyson's minor comment at this point: you just need smart bioinformaticians to prepare things ahead of time!). - Allyson Lister

GenePattern: http://www.genepattern.org - Allyson Lister

Think most are familiar with GenePattern for array analysis. Has now been expanded to handle proteomics data, variation information, sequencing and flow cytometry. Encourages user submission of data sets and modules. - Oliver Hofmann

Like the versioning of data, analytical tools and whole workflows - Oliver Hofmann

Some of this talk reminds me of Taverna (modular workflows?) and some reminds me of FuGE (common format for describing experiments/protocols)... - Allyson Lister

Now with integrative methods we seem to be back at using the biologist as the web interface (manual data transitions and conversions required). Future work: develop frameworks for plug and play cooperative approaches leveraging multiple existing tools - Oliver Hofmann

Newly funded GenomeSpace project to tackle this (with IGV, Genomica, Cytoscape, Galaxy, UCSC) - Oliver Hofmann

@Allyson: was thinking of Gaggle in addition to this - Oliver Hofmann

@Oliver: agreed. It does seem similar - both Integrated Analysis Environments, sounds like... - Allyson Lister

Blog post: http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009... - Allyson Lister

Working with MS on a Microsoft Word plugin which embedds the workflow / process information. Think Sweave. - Oliver Hofmann