The LabFlow System for Workflow Management in Large Scale Biology Research Laboratories

LabFlowis a workflowmanagementsystem designed for large scale biologyresearch laboratories. It providesa workflowmodelin whichobjects flowfromtask to task under programmaticcontrol. Themodelsupportsparallelism, meaningthat an object can flowdownseveral paths simultaneously, and sub-workflowswhichcan be invokedsubroutine-style froma task. Thesystemallocates tasks to Unix processes to achieve requisite levels of multiprocessing. Thesystemuses the LabBasedata management systemto store workflow-stateandlaboratoryresults. LabFlowprovides a Perl5 object-oriented frameworkfor defining workflows,and an enginefor executingthese. The softwareis freely available.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ISMB
• Authors: Nathan Goodman, Steve Rozen, Lincoln Stein
• Keywords: Computational Biology, Frameworkfor Defining Workflows, Invokedsubroutine-style Froma Task, ISMB 1998, Scale Biologyresearch Laboratories