Rabix: An open-source workflow executor supporting recomputability and interoperability of workflow descriptions

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing

Volumn 0, Issue 212679, 2017, Pages 154-165

  Kaushik, Gaurav ^a   Ivkovic, Sinisa ^b   Simonovic, Janko ^b   Tijanic, Nebojsa ^b   Davis Dusenbery, Brandi ^a   Kural, Deniz ^a  

^a Seven Bridges Genomics   (United States)

^b Seven Bridges Genomics   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; INTEROPERABILITY; REUSABILITY; SPECIFICATIONS;

BIOMEDICAL DATA; DATA ANALYSIS TOOL; EXECUTION ENGINE; FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK; REPRODUCIBILITIES; WORKFLOW ENGINES; WORKFLOW LANGUAGE; WORKFLOW SPECIFICATION;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGY; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKFLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 85024405788     PISSN: 23356928     EISSN: 23356936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/9789813207813_0016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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