Taverna/myGrid FAQ

When to use Taverna

I am working in XXX research area - what have people done in previous workflows in this area?

Is Taverna right for me?

When should I use Kepler instead of Taverna?

Taverna & Security - what's the deal

Grid

What GRID does Taverna run on?

What is the difference between MyGrid and Taverna?

Does Taverna require an OMII grid to be installed?

Can I use Logbook/Provenance without involving MyGrid?

What is Taverna

I want to cite you - what is the preferred reference?

Where is the Taverna service registry?

Where is the Taverna workflow repository?

How does myGrid use the semantic web? Which ontology?

Why does Taverna use scufl and not BPEL?

What will Taverna 2 be, and when will it be here?

Building workflows

How do I get a tool on my local machine into my workflow?

How can I add a library to the classpath for use with Beanshell/APIConsumer

How do I use my database from Taverna?

How do I run a Perl script from Taverna?

How do I use the Execute_cmd_line_app tool?

How can I do looping?

Where can I see the actual SOAP messages being sent/received? (I'm debugging a service)

How can I ask the user for information while the workflow runs?

How can I use R/BioConductor from Taverna?

Is there an easier way than adding StringConstants for simple input values such as database names?

How can I transform XML using the XSLT?

How do I use xpath to extract information from XML?

How can I find a web service within Taverna?

How can I render SVG output (and other MIME types) from my workflow?

Making services for Taverna

What services are there in myGrid?

How can I annotate my web services for Taverna?

How can I make my web services searchable by Feta

How do I wrap a service for myGrid?

What is the best way to make a web service that can be used by Taverna?

How can I create my own processor to add to a workflow?

Customising Taverna

Where is my Taverna home directory?

Where and what is mygrid.properites?

What is the latest version of Freefluo?

How do I execute a workflow outside Taverna?

How do I specify the HTTP proxy for Taverna?

How can I add or remove services from the services panel?

How can I customise the default services in the service panel?

I'm trying to build Taverna using Maven, but I get "Error transferring file"

How can I use local files as input to my workflow?

Running workflows

I think I've found a bug what do I do?

How do I load multiple inputs from a file?

Everything is slow/hangs when I'm inputting 20 files, 8 MB each

How can I suspend my workflow execution and resume it the next day?

How can I get Taverna to execute tasks in parallel?

Why are there empty lists in my results? (e.g. when using Biomoby)

Why are the results so deeply nested say when using BioMoby?

How do I run the same workflow 100 times?

How can I run my workflow from a web page?

Can I run Taverna on another machine / from the command line?

Why do I get stacktraces when using "Fail if true"?

executeworkflow.sh doesn't produce any output