Taverna: a tool for the composition and enactment of bioinformatics workflows
Taverna: a tool for the composition and enactment of bioinformatics workflows
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DOI：
10.1093/bioinformatics/bth361
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发表时间：
2004-11-22
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影响因子：
5.8
通讯作者：
Li, P
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作者：
Oinn, T;Addis, M;Li, P
动机：生物信息学中的计算机模拟实验涉及计算工具和信息库的协同使用。越来越多的此类资源以网络服务的形式提供编程访问。生物信息学科学家在分析过程中需要将这些网络服务编排到工作流程中。
结果：Taverna项目为生命科学界开发了一种用于生物信息学工作流程的组合和执行的工具。该工具包括一个工作台应用程序，它为工作流程的组合提供图形用户界面。这些工作流程是用一种名为简单概念统一流语言（Scufl）的新语言编写的，其中工作流程中的每一步都代表一个原子任务。使用两个例子来说明使用工作台应用程序将计算机模拟实验表示为Scufl工作流程是多么容易。
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 which in silico experiments can be represented as Scufl workflows using the workbench application.