Taverna: Lessons in creating a workflow environment for the life sciences

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1067-1100

  Oinn, Tom ^a   Greenwood, Mark ^b   Addis, Matthew ^c   Alpdemir, M Nedim ^b   Ferris, Justin ^c   Glover, Kevin ^d   Goble, Carole ^b   Goderis, Antoon ^b   Hull, Duncan ^b   Marvin, Darren ^c   Li, Peter ^e   Lord, Phillip ^b   Pocock, Matthew R ^e   Senger, Martin ^a   Stevens, Robert ^b   Wipat, Anil ^e   Wroe, Chris ^b  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Life sciences; Scientific workflow; Semantic Grid environment; Web services

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SERVICES;

SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOW; SEMANTIC GRID ENVIRONMENT; WEB SERVICES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646038227     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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