Taverna workbench

The Taverna workbench is a free software [ [http://taverna.sourceforge.net/ Taverna is free software licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License] ] tool for designing and executing workflows, created by the myGrid project and funded through OMII-UK. Taverna allows users to integrate many different software tools, including web services, such as those provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, The European Bioinformatics Institute, the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ), [http://soaplab.sourceforge.net/ SoapLab] , BioMOBY and EMBOSS. For a more complete description, see the documentation below.

The Taverna Workbench provides a desktop authoring environment and enactment engine for scientific workflows expressed in Scufl (Simple Conceptual Unified Flow language). The Taverna enactment engine is also available separately, and other Scufl enactors are available including Freefluo and Moteur. The [http://www.myexperiment.org myExperiment social web site] supports the finding and sharing of workflows and has special support for Scufl workflows. The Taverna workbench, myExperiment and associated components are produced by the myGrid consortium.

The Taverna Workbench is used by users in many domains, such as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, astronomy, social science and music.

External links

* [http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/taverna Official Taverna website]
* [http://cdk.sf.net Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) Extension for Taverna] for Chemoinformatics
* [http://www.myexperiment.org myExperiment social web site] for finding and sharing workflows, with special support for SCUFL workflows used by Taverna and other enactors

Peer reviewed publications on Taverna

* [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bth361 Taverna: a tool for the composition and enactment of bioinformatics workflows] DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth361
* [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.993 Taverna: Lessons in creating a workflow environment for the Life Sciences] DOI:10.1002/cpe.993
* [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1538887 Taverna: a tool for building and running workflows of services] DOI:10.1093/nar/gkl320
* [http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-7-523 BioMoby extensions to the Taverna workflow management and enactment software] DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-7-523
* [http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btl101 XQTav: an XQuery processor for Taverna environment] DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl101
* [http://www.citeulike.org/tag/taverna Publications about Taverna tagged in Citeulike ] and [http://www.connotea.org/tag/taverna connotea]

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