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E-BioFlow: Different Perspectives on Scientific Workflows

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Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD 2008)

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We introduce a new type of workflow design system called e-BioFlow and illustrate it by means of a simple sequence alignment workflow. E-BioFlow, intended to model advanced scientific workflows, enables the user to model a workflow from three different but strongly coupled perspectives: the control flow perspective, the data flow perspective, and the resource perspective. All three perspectives are of equal importance, but workflow designers from different domains prefer different perspectives as entry points for their design, and a single workflow designer may prefer different perspectives in different stages of workflow design. Each perspective provides its own type of information, visualisation and support for validation. Combining these three perspectives in a single application provides a new and flexible way of modelling workflows.

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    Ingo Wassink, Paul van der Vet & Anton Nijholt

  2. Micro Array Department, University of Amsterdam,  

    Han Rauwerda & Timo Breit

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Wassink, I., Rauwerda, H., van der Vet, P., Breit, T., Nijholt, A. (2008). E-BioFlow: Different Perspectives on Scientific Workflows. In: Elloumi, M., Küng, J., Linial, M., Murphy, R.F., Schneider, K., Toma, C. (eds) Bioinformatics Research and Development. BIRD 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70600-7_19

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