Analysing scientific workflows: why workflows not only connect web services

I. Wassink; P.E. van der Vet; K. Wolstencroft; P.B.T. Neerincx; M. Roos; H. Rauwerda; T.M. Breit

doi:10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.48

Analysing scientific workflows: why workflows not only connect web services

I. Wassink, P.E. van der Vet, K. Wolstencroft, P.B.T. Neerincx, M. Roos, H. Rauwerda, T.M. Breit

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.48
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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Conference	2009 IEEE Congress on Services, SERVICES 2009
Abbreviated title	SERVICES
Country	United States
City	Los Angeles
Period	6/07/09 → 10/07/09
Internet address	http://www.servicescongress.org/2009/1/index.html

Keywords

METIS-263918
IR-67519
data conversion
sub-workflow
EWI-15690
Scientific workflow
Scripting
HMI-HF: Human Factors
HMI-CI: Computational Intelligence
Web Services

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Wassink, I, van der Vet, PE, Wolstencroft, K, Neerincx, PBT, Roos, M, Rauwerda, H & Breit, TM 2009, Analysing scientific workflows: why workflows not only connect web services. in LJ Zhang (ed.), IEEE Congress on Services 2009., 10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.48, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, pp. 314-321, 2009 IEEE Congress on Services, SERVICES 2009, Los Angeles, United States, 6/07/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.48

Analysing scientific workflows: why workflows not only connect web services. / Wassink, I.; van der Vet, P.E.; Wolstencroft, K.; Neerincx, P.B.T.; Roos, M.; Rauwerda, H.; Breit, T.M.

IEEE Congress on Services 2009. ed. / LJ. Zhang. Los Alamitos : IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009. p. 314-321 10.1109/SERVICES-I.2009.48.

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