Bioworks: A Workflow System for Automation of Bioinformatics Analysis Processes

Over the past decade, the rapid development of high-throughput technologies has lead to an explosive growth in biological information. Many molecular biology fields involve in-silico experiments using bioinformatics applications. A workflow can be well-defined model for bioinformatics analysis processes to be performed as a chain of interlinked data process tasks. We have developed a client/server-based workflow system called Bioworks, supporting large-scale analysis through the high performance cluster computing resources. In this paper, we highlight implementation methods in Bioworks, for meeting key requirements of effective workflow systems for bioinformatics analysis processes.