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Taverna Workbench 3.0 Alpha 1
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The myGrid team at University of Manchester are pleased to announce
Taverna Workbench 3 alpha 1.

This is an alpha release so does not have all the features that will be
in the final release. Some of the features NOT included in this release
are:

 * Running and editing of BioMOBY and Tool services
 * Editing of REST and XPath services
 * The Service Catalogue and myExperiment perspectives
 * Viewing intermediate workflow results

This release is intended for people who are interested in trying out the
new features and are happy running pre-release software. It should only
be used for testing; workflows produced with this version may NOT be
compatible with the final release version and are thus unsupported.

There is no application installer for the alpha release - unzip the
downloaded file and run the startup script taverna.sh (Linux or Mac) or
taverna.bat (Windows).

What's new in Taverna Workbench 3.0 Alpha
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Taverna Workbench has been rewritten as an OSGi application.
This allows us to remove the current classloader isolation code
(Raven) and change the build and application update system to
allow more frequent incremental updates.

Supports the new SCUFL workflow language and DataBundle data
format. Workflow execution and run management is handled by the
new Taverna Platform.

SCUFL2:
 * New workflow language for Taverna products
 * Abstract workflow definition – not tied to workflow execution
 * Easy to use API

DataBundle:
 * New data format for workflow inputs and outputs
 * API compatible with standard Java file system
 * Saves as zip file for portability

Taverna Platform :
 * Run Service for managing workflow runs
 * Support for multiple execution environments (local machine, Taverna
   Server, etc.)

User interface changes improvements:
 * Tabs for open workflows
 * Tabs for workflow runs
 * Editing of nested workflows within the same tab


Download
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To download Taverna Workbench 3 alpha 1 (71 MiB):

https://launchpad.net/taverna/t3/3.0.a1/+download/taverna-workbench-3.0.a1.zip

        md5: b4ac39a2e058c066af20e2b685be52fc
        sha1: f99f2b142493757061b0659e76b13f2eeb0021f3

Requirements and further details can be found in the README.txt:

    https://launchpad.net/taverna/t3/3.0.a1/+download/README.txt


Feedback
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The myGrid team welcome any feedback, which will be taken into account
when planning the next releases of Taverna 3. Please send any comments,
requests and bug reports to:

    [email protected]

Future
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We hope to release an 'Alpha 2 'in 4-5 weeks and then a  'Beta 1' before the
end of the year. Early feedback will be beneficial to further developments so
please feel free to let us know what you think.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Shoaib Sufi
Project Manager
myGrid Team
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester

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