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== About myExperiment and {{LabTrove Product}} ==
The myExperiment platform provides a repository for workflows in a collaborative environment. In the laboratory notebook context, a workflow is an explicit and precise description of a scientific process. {{LabTrove Product}} templates represent steps in a workflow. As such, {{LabTrove Product}} templates are potentially very useful objects to share between researchers working with similar procedures and protocols. This topic tells you how to link {{LabTrove Product}} with myExperiment, by exporting the XML description of a template, together with authorship details and a representative image of the template, then uploading the XML file to myExperiment. From there, other users can share or import the template and use it in their own {{LabTrove Product}} {{Blog}}.
For more information about myExperiment, refer to the website and the following publication:
Goble CA, et al. ''myExperiment: a repository and social network for the sharing of bioinformatics workflows''. Nucl. Acids Res., 2010. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq429
=== Exporting a template from {{LabTrove Product}} ===
To create an XML package suitable for uploading to myExperiment, complete the following steps:
# Login to your {{LabTrove Instance}}
# Select the {{Blog}} that you want to work with
# Select the template post that you want to export
# Click '''PNG Image'''. {{LabTrove Product}} generates an image of the template as you view it in the {{LabTrove Product}} user interface, with a URI that includes the post identifier
# Click '''XML (With Files)'''. {{LabTrove Product}} generates an XML representation of the template, with a URI that includes the post identifier
=== Uploading a {{LabTrove Product}} template to myExperiment ===
To upload the XML package you exported from {{LabTrove Product}}, complete the following steps:
# Login to myExperiment at http://www.myexperiment.org/
# In the '''New/Upload''' pane, select '''Workflow''' and Click '''Go'''
# Type the path to the XML file of the template, or click '''Browse''' to locate the XML file
# By default, myExperiment will try to obtain descriptive metadata from the LabTrove template. If you want to supply your own description, select '''Enter custom metadata''' and complete the appropriate fields
# If you want to supply '''Other metadata and settings''', add tags to describe the {{LabTrove Product}} template and, if required, select the sharing and collaboration details
# Click '''Upload and Continue'''. The template appears in myExperiment
=== Finding {{LabTrove Product}} templates in myExperiment ===
To search for {{LabTrove Product}} templates, complete the following steps:
# Login to myExperiment at http://www.myexperiment.org/
# In the Search field, type <tt>kind: ({{LabTrove Product}} templates)</tt>
# Select '''Workflows''' from the drop-down menu
# Click '''Search'''. A list of {{LabTrove Product}} templates is displayed. 
==What to do next==
*[[Integrating with other systems]]
*[[Exporting content from the eNotebook]]
*[[Writing plugins for LabTrove]]
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