Professor Carole Goble carole goble manchester ac uk The

Professor Carole Goble carole. [email protected] ac. uk The University of Manchester, UK The my. Grid project http: //www. mygrid. org. uk my. Experiment http: //myexperiment. org OMII-UK http: //www. omii. ac. uk

http: //www. slideshare. net/dullhunk/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-bio

Methodology

I am grateful to…

The Traditional Sins….

The Sins of Bioinformatics

Reinvention of the Wheel

Andy Law's Third Law http: //bioinformatics. roslin. ac. uk/lawslaw

Andy Law’s First (Format) Law http: //bioinformatics. roslin. ac. uk/lawslaw

Yet another database …

Bio. Babel

Computer Science? No thanks!

Why don’t biologists modularise OWL* ontologies properly? Er, well, like how should we do it “properly” and where are the tools to help us? We don’t know and we haven’t got any. But here are some vague guidelines.

Of Mice and Cows

Biologist exceptionalism

Biology Exceptionalism

No tool is an island…

Workflow commodities

Lincoln Stein said a while ago…

Sin 4

I know it all.

Think like me! Be like me!

The trouble with warehouses

Now we call this a mash up

Ennui

Quality Delusions

Irreproducible Black Box Science Stuff In Stuff Out

Hackery

Law's Second Law

Blind Faith in Foo.

Pioneering development methods

At the other end of the spectrum…

Sin Summary Parochialism and Insularity Autonomy or death! Chur n Exceptionalism Scientific method Sloth Instant Gratification Vanity: Pride and Narcissism

Are bioinformaticians particularly naughty? No naughtier than Computer Scientists. And its all very hard. Though they are naughty…

Forgive us our sins….

The Selfish, Self-interested Scientist

Reuse is Hard

My New Gadget Syndrome

More than One Mechanism Muddle

Invention, not Reinvention

Luddism

I don’t trust your code I don’t trust your data I don’t trust you will still be around in one year I don’t trust your workflow I don’t trust you will use my data / workflow / code properly

Hybrid exhaustion and pressure.

Make sharing easier Make sharing rewarded Think Components Only standardise the minimum Embed bioinformaticians and computer scientists Presume naughtiness

Think Safe Sharing of Stuff

Think Components Web Services

Think how it Really Is™…

Think User and Developer together

Think Web 2. 0 Design Patterns