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GPFlow: an intuitive environment for web‐based scientific workflow
Author(s) -
Rygg Asbjørn,
Roe Paul,
Wong On,
Sumitomo Jiro
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.1216
Subject(s) - workflow , workflow technology , workflow engine , computer science , workflow management system , windows workflow foundation , flexibility (engineering) , software , world wide web , software engineering , data science , database , programming language , statistics , mathematics
Increasingly scientists are using collections of software tools in their research. These tools are typically used in concert, often necessitating laborious and error‐prone manual data reformatting and transfer. We present an intuitive workflow environment to support scientists with their research. The workflow, GPFlow, wraps legacy tools, presenting a high level, interactive web‐based front end to scientists. The workflow backend is realized by a commercial grade workflow engine (Windows Workflow Foundation). The workflow model is inspired by spreadsheets and is novel in its support for an intuitive method of interaction enabling experimentation as required by many scientists, e.g. bioinformaticians. We apply GPFlow to two bioinformatics experiments and demonstrate its flexibility and simplicity. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.