title: A framework based on Web service orchestration for bioinformatics workflow management.
abstract: Bioinformatics activities are growing all over the world, with proliferation of data and tools. This brings new challenges: how to understand and organize these resources and how to provide interoperability among tools to achieve a given goal. We defined and implemented a framework to help meet some of these challenges. Four issues were considered: the use of Web services as a basic unit, the notion of a Semantic Web to improve interoperability at the syntactic and semantic levels, and the use of scientific workflows to coordinate services to be executed, including their interdependencies and service orchestration.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Computação, Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil. luciano@ic.unicamp.br
authors.forename: Luciano A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Digiampietri
authors.forename: Claudia B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Medeiros
authors.forename: João C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Setubal
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D012660:Semantics; D014584:User-Computer Interface