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A framework based on Web service orchestration for bioinformatics workflow management
Luciano A. Digiampietri1, Claudia B. Medeiros2 and João C. Setubal3
1Instituto de Computação, Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil
2Departamento de Sistemas de Informação, Instituto de Computação,
Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil
3Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Corresponding author: L.A. Digiampietri
E-mail: luciano@ic.unicamp.br
Genet. Mol. Res. 4 (3): 535-542 (2005)
Received May 20, 2005
Accepted July 8, 2005
Published September 30, 2005

ABSTRACT. Bioinformatics activities are growing all over the world, with proliferation of data and tools. This brings new challenges: how to understand and organize these resources and how to provide interoperability among tools to achieve a given goal. We defined and implemented a framework to help meet some of these challenges. Four issues were considered: the use of Web services as a basic unit, the notion of a Semantic Web to improve interoperability at the syntactic and semantic levels, and the use of scientific workflows to coordinate services to be executed, including their interdependencies and service orchestration.

Key words: Bioinformatics, Workflow, Web service, Semantic web

 

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