The tools support the creation of e-laboratories and have been used in domains as diverse as systems biology, social science, music, astronomy,[1] multimedia and chemistry.
[23] To date, Grid development has focused on the basic issues of storage, computation and resource management needed to make a global scientific community's information and tools accessible in a high performance environment.
However, from an e-Science viewpoint, the purpose of the Grid is to deliver a collaborative and supportive environment that allows geographically distributed scientists to achieve research goals more effectively.
MyGrid will design, develop and demonstrate higher level functionalities over an existing Grid infrastructure that support scientists in making use of complex distributed resources.
The Taverna workbench supports individual scientists by providing personalisation facilities relating to resource selection, data management and process enactment.