Title :
In Services: Data Management for In Silico Workflows
Author :
Da Silva, Fabrício Nogueira ; Cavalcanti, Maria Cláudia ; Dávila, Alberto M R
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Eng., IME-RJ, Rio de Janeiro
Abstract :
Scientific workflows are emerging as a suitable practice to support bio informatics experiments. Specially, in distributed environments, where workflow steps are located at different sites, workflows can create an independent and interoperable environment between the scientific applications and databases, when combined with the Web services technology. Web services have been useful as legacy code wrappers, in order to facilitate distributed workflow definition and orchestration. However, there is an increasing need to address workflow intermediate data management. This work presents the In Services system that provides support for bio informatics workflows redefinition. This redefinition enables the user to include specific data management services, according to his needs. These services are able to filter, store and retrieve data that are generated in each workflow execution step
Keywords :
Internet; biology computing; data handling; open systems; scientific information systems; workflow management software; In Services system; Web service; bioinformatics workflow redefinition; data filtering; data management service; data retrieval; data storage; distributed workflow definition; in silico workflow; scientific workflow; workflow execution step; workflow intermediate data management; Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Distributed databases; Filters; Genomics; Information retrieval; Systems biology; Systems engineering and theory; Web services; Workflow management software;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2006. DEXA '06. 17th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Krakow
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2641-1
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.2006.72
