Wildfire: Distributed, grid-enabled workflow construction and execution

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tang, Francis ^a   Chua, Ching Lian ^b   Ho, Liang Yoong ^a   Lim, Yun Ping ^a   Issac, Praveen ^c   Krishnan, Arun ^a  

^a BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS WORKFLOWS; DRAG-AND-DROP; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW EXECUTION;

BIOINFORMATICS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

FIRES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSUMER; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROCOMPUTER; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; DATA BASE; DEVICES; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; HYPERMEDIA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EXONS; HUMANS; HYPERMEDIA; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 25444520762     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-69     Document Type: Article

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