Taverna: lessons in creating a workflow environment for the life sciences
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@ARTICLE{Oinn2006, author = {Oinn, Thomas and Greenwood, Mark and Addis, Matthew and Alpdemir, Nedim and Ferris, Justin and Glover, Kevin and Goble, Carole and Goderis, Antoon and Hull, Duncan and Marvin, Darren and Li, Peter and Lord, Phillip and Pocock, Matthew and Senger, Martin and Stevens, Robert and Wipat, Anil and Wroe, Christopher }, title = {Taverna: lessons in creating a workflow environment for the life sciences}, journal = {Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience}, year = {2006}, volume = {18}, pages = {1067--1100}, number = {10}, month = {August}, abstract = {Life sciences research is based on individuals, often with diverse skills, assembled into research groups. These groups use their specialist expertise to address scientific problems. The in silico experiments undertaken by these research groups can be represented as workflows involving the co-ordinated use of analysis programs and information repositories that may be globally distributed. With regards to Grid computing, the requirements relate to the sharing of analysis and information resources rather than sharing computational power. The myGrid project has developed the Taverna Workbench for the composition and execution of workflows for the life sciences community. This experience paper describes lessons learnt during the development of Taverna. A common theme is the importance of understanding how workflows fit into the scientists' experimental context. The lessons reflect an evolving understanding of life scientists' requirements on a workflow environment, which is relevant to other areas of data intensive and exploratory science.}, address = {Chichester, UK, UK}, doi = {10.1002/cpe.v18:10}, issn = {1532-0626}, keywords = {taverna}, owner = {alanrw}, publisher = {John Wiley and Sons Ltd.}, timestamp = {2008.09.26} }
Citation: T. Oinn, M. Greenwood, M. Addis, N. Alpdemir, J. Ferris, K. Glover, C. Goble, A. Goderis, D. Hull, D. Marvin, P. Li, P. Lord, M. Pocock, M. Senger, R. Stevens, A. Wipat, and C. Wroe, "Taverna: lessons in creating a workflow environment for the life sciences," Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 18, iss. 10, pp. 1067-1100, 2006.
Abstract
Life sciences research is based on individuals, often with diverse skills, assembled into research groups. These groups use their specialist expertise to address scientific problems. The in silico experiments undertaken by these research groups can be represented as workflows involving the co-ordinated use of analysis programs and information repositories that may be globally distributed. With regards to Grid computing, the requirements relate to the sharing of analysis and information resources rather than sharing computational power. The myGrid project has developed the Taverna Workbench for the composition and execution of workflows for the life sciences community. This experience paper describes lessons learnt during the development of Taverna. A common theme is the importance of understanding how workflows fit into the scientists’ experimental context. The lessons reflect an evolving understanding of life scientists’ requirements on a workflow environment, which is relevant to other areas of data intensive and exploratory science.
