Taverna swMATH ID: 8764 Software Authors: Oinn, T.; Addis, M.; Ferris, J.; Marvin, D.; Senger, M.; Greenwood, M.; Carver, T.; Glover, K.; Pocock, M. R.; Wipat, A.; Li, P. Description: Taverna: a tool for the composition and enactment of bioinformatics workflows. 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. Availability: The Taverna workflow system is available as open source and can be downloaded with example Scufl workflows from http://taverna.sourceforge.net Homepage: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/17/3045.short Related Software: Pegasus; Java CoG Kit; BioMOBY; Triana; Globus Toolkit; YAWL; KNIME; Spark; knitr; IPython; Sweave; Snakemake; Ruffus; Docker; Python; Bioconductor; R; Giggle; Condor-G; GridFlow Cited in: 8 Documents all top 5 Cited by 21 Authors 2 Hidders, Jan 2 Sroka, Jacek 1 Becker, Gabriel 1 Brandt, Jorgen 1 Chen, Jinjun 1 Chrysanthis, Panos K. 1 Compatangelo, Ernesto 1 Croitoru, Madalina 1 Goble, Carole 1 Kell, Douglas B. 1 Labrinidis, Alexandros 1 Lawrence, Michael F. 1 Leser, Ulf 1 Liu, Xiao 1 Mellish, Chris S. 1 Missier, Paolo 1 Moore, Sara E. 1 Neophytou, Panayiotis 1 Reisig, Wolfgang 1 Yang, Yun 1 Yuan, Dong all top 5 Cited in 6 Serials 1 Journal of Computer and System Sciences 1 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 1 Journal of Functional Programming 1 Fundamenta Informaticae 1 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 1 Journal of Theoretical Biology Cited in 4 Fields 6 Computer science (68-XX) 1 History and biography (01-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) Citations by Year