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

@article{Oinn2006TavernaLI,
  title={Taverna: lessons in creating a workflow environment for the life sciences},
  author={Thomas M. Oinn and R. Mark Greenwood and Matthew Addis and M. Nedim Alpdemir and Justin Ferris and Kevin Glover and Carole A. Goble and Antoon Goderis and Duncan Hull and Darren Marvin and Peter Li and Phillip W. Lord and Matthew R. Pocock and Martin Senger and Robert Stevens and Anil Wipat and Chris Wroe},
  journal={Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience},
  year={2006},
  volume={18}
}
  • T. Oinn, R. Greenwood, C. Wroe
  • Published 25 August 2006
  • Environmental Science
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Life sciences research is based on individuals, often with diverse skills, assembled into research groups. These groups use their specialist expertise to address scientific problems. The in silico experiments undertaken by these research groups can be represented as workflows involving the co‐ordinated use of analysis programs and information repositories that may be globally distributed. With regards to Grid computing, the requirements relate to the sharing of analysis and information… 
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