This Scratchpad is a joint effort of Salmon and Freshwater Ecosystems Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, BC, Canada and the BioVeL project. Its purpose is to demonstrate the integration of several informatics technologies useful in "in-silico" biodiversity science: Scratchpads, Taverna Player and BioVeL infrastructure for executing workflows. This particular example makes use of population census data for Killer Whales and abundance data for Chinook Salmon in the north-east Pacific Ocean, which has kindly been provided by Antonio Velez-Espino of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. At the present time please do not rely on the data or results information provided for any actual scientific, conservation or policy use. Mistakes herein (of which there are several) are solely the responsibility of the technical parties working on the technology integration. These include: Cardiff University, University of Manchester and the Natural History Museum, London.
Demographic study and Chinook interactions
L. Antonio Vélez-Espino1,£, John K.B. Ford2, Charles K. Parken1, Graeme Ellis2, Eric Ward3, Larrie LaVoy4, Ken Balcomb5, M. Bradley Hanson3, Dawn P. Noren3, Tom Cooney4, Rishi Sharma6,7
(1) Salmon and Freshwater Ecosystems Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada*; (2) Marine Mammal Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; (3) Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA); (4) Salmon Management Division, Northwest Region (NOAA); (5) Center for Whale Research, WA; (6) Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission; (7) Current: Indian Ocean Tuna Commission.
*Pacific Biological Station
3190 Hammond Bay Road
Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N7
(250) 756-7119
Antonio.Velez-Espino@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Workflows to run in the Scratchpad/Taverna portal developed jointly by Andres Araujo1, L. Antonio Vélez-Espino1, Maria Paula Balcazar-Vargas2 and Jonathan Giddy3 and Francisco Quevedo3.
(1) Salmon and Freshwater Ecosystems Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada;
(2) Instituut voor Biodiversiteit en Ecosysteem Dynamica (IBED), Universiteit van Amsterdam;
(3) Cardiff School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom.
Other acknowledgements
Engineers responsible for Taverna Player/BioVeL and Scratchpads integration
- Simon Rycroft, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom.
- Robert Haines, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
Principal investigators responsible for the respective projects
- BioVeL: Alex Hardisty, Cardiff School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom.
- Scratchpads: Vince Smith, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom.