Lessons Learned

Abstract

The application examples presented in Part II (Chapters 3 - 6) demonstrate that in silico experiments of different flavors can be realized with the BiojETI framework. They cover a broad range of typical bioinformatics workflow scenarios, concerned with different thematic areas, different software components, different service technologies, and also workflows of different complexity. They illustrate how the constraint-driven workflow development methodology helps mastering the manifold workflow variants and how PROPHETS’ ability to flexibly formulate domain-specific and problemspecific constraints supports the workflow development process. As such, the application scenarios provide on the one hand qualitative evidence of the method’s applicability on real-world application scenarios, and on the other hand they are suitable as a proper basis for further considerations about the applied workflow development technology. In this context, this chapter focuses specifically on the “lessons learned” regarding the constraint-driven workflow design methodology that has been introduced to the Bio-jETI framework in the scope of the work underlying this book.