Abstract
Life science workflow systems are developed to
help life scientists to conveniently connect various programs and web services. In practice however, much time is spent on data conversion, because web services provided by different organisations use different data formats. We have analysed all the Taverna workflows available at the myExperiment web site on December 11, 2008. Our analysis of the tasks in these workflows shows several noticeable aspects: their number ranges from 1 to 70 tasks per workflow; 18% of the workflows consist of a single task.
Of the tasks used are 22% web services; local services, i.e.
tasks executed by the workflow system itself, are very popular and cover 57% of tasks; tasks implemented by the workflow designer, scripting tasks, are is also used often (14%). Our analysis shows that over 30% of tasks are related to dataconversion.
Original language | Undefined |
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Title of host publication | IEEE Congress on Services 2009 |
Editors | LJ. Zhang |
Place of Publication | Los Alamitos |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society Press |
Pages | 314-321 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7695-3708-5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 Jul 2009 |
Event | 2009 IEEE Congress on Services, SERVICES 2009 - Los Angeles, United States Duration: 6 Jul 2009 → 10 Jul 2009 http://www.servicescongress.org/2009/1/index.html |
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Publisher | IEEE Computer Society Press |
Conference
Conference | 2009 IEEE Congress on Services, SERVICES 2009 |
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Abbreviated title | SERVICES |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Los Angeles |
Period | 6/07/09 → 10/07/09 |
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Keywords
- METIS-263918
- IR-67519
- data conversion
- sub-workflow
- EWI-15690
- Scientific workflow
- Scripting
- HMI-HF: Human Factors
- HMI-CI: Computational Intelligence
- Web Services