From the desktop to the grid: scalable bioinformatics via workflow conversion

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• 作者：Luis de la Garza ; Johannes Veit ; Andras Szolek ; Marc Röttig…
• 关键词：Workflow ; Interoperability ; KNIME ; Grid ; Cloud ; Galaxy ; gUSE
• 刊名：BMC Bioinformatics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：2,370 KB
• 刊物主题：Bioinformatics; Microarrays; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Combinatorial Libraries; Algorithms;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2105

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Background Reproducibility is one of the tenets of the scientific method. Scientific experiments often comprise complex data flows, selection of adequate parameters, and analysis and visualization of intermediate and end results. Breaking down the complexity of such experiments into the joint collaboration of small, repeatable, well defined tasks, each with well defined inputs, parameters, and outputs, offers the immediate benefit of identifying bottlenecks, pinpoint sections which could benefit from parallelization, among others. Workflows rest upon the notion of splitting complex work into the joint effort of several manageable tasks.