caGrid Workflow Toolkit: A Taverna based workflow tool for cancer Grid

Background: In biological and medical domain, the use of web services made the data and computation functionality accessible in a unified manner, which helped automate the data pipeline that was previously performed manually. Workflow technology is widely used in the orchestration of multiple services to facilitate insilico research. Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) is an information network enabling the sharing of cancer research related resources and caGrid is its underlying service-based computation infrastructure. CaBIG requires that services are composed and orchestrated in a given sequence to realize data pipelines, which are often called scientific workflows. Results: CaGrid selected Taverna as its workflow execution system of choice due to its integration with web service technology and support for a wide range of web services, plug-in architecture to cater for easy integration of third party extensions, etc. The caGrid Workflow Toolkit (or the toolkit for short), an...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Wei Tan, Ravi K. Madduri, Aleksandra Nenadic, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Dinanath Sulakhe, Ian T. Foster, Carole A. Goble
• Keywords: BMCBI 2010, Cagrid Workflow Toolkit, Web Services, Workflows