title: Workflow based framework for life science informatics.
abstract: Workflow technology is a generic mechanism to integrate diverse types of available resources (databases, servers, software applications and different services) which facilitate knowledge exchange within traditionally divergent fields such as molecular biology, clinical research, computational science, physics, chemistry and statistics. Researchers can easily incorporate and access diverse, distributed tools and data to develop their own research protocols for scientific analysis. Application of workflow technology has been reported in areas like drug discovery, genomics, large-scale gene expression analysis, proteomics, and system biology. In this article, we have discussed the existing workflow systems and the trends in applications of workflow based systems.
authors.affiliation: Informatics Division, GVK Biosciences, Hyderabad 500037, India. abhishek.twr@gmail.com
authors.forename: Abhishek
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tiwari
authors.forename: Arvind K T
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Sekhar
mesh_terms: D001690:Biological Science Disciplines / Q000379:methods*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D007254:Information Science / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface