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Taverna: A tool for the composition and enactment of bioinformatics workflows (2004)
| Venue: | Bioinformatics |
| Citations: | 465 - 8 self |
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@ARTICLE{Oinn04taverna:a,
author = {Tom Oinn and Matthew Addis and Justin Ferris and Darren Marvin and Tim Carver and Matthew R. Pocock and Anil Wipat},
title = {Taverna: A tool for the composition and enactment of bioinformatics workflows},
journal = {Bioinformatics},
year = {2004},
volume = {20},
pages = {2004}
}
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Abstract
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Running head: Composing and enacting workflows using Taverna Motivation: In silico experiments in bioinformatics involve the co-ordinated use of computational tools and information repositories. A growing number of these resources are being made available with programmatic access in the form of Web services. Bioinformatics scientists will need to orchestrate these Web services in workflows as part of their analyses. Results: The Taverna project has developed a tool for the composition and enactment of bioinformatics workflows for the life sciences community. The tool includes a workbench application which provides a graphical user interface for the composition of workflows. These workflows are written in a new language called the Simple conceptual unified flow language (Scufl), where by each step within a workflow represents one atomic task. Two examples are used to illustrate the ease by with which in silico experiments can be represented as Scufl workflows using the workbench application. Availability: The Taverna workflow system is available as open source and can be downloaded with example Scufl workflows from
Keyphrases
bioinformatics workflow web service workbench application silico experiment example scufl taverna motivation new language open source computational tool flow language life science community bioinformatics scientist co-ordinated use taverna workflow system atomic task information repository graphical user interface programmatic access taverna project
