title: The Taverna Interaction Service: enabling manual interaction in workflows.
abstract: Taverna is an application that eases the integration of tools and databases for life science research by the construction of workflows. The Taverna Interaction Service extends the functionality of Taverna by defining human interaction within a workflow and acting as a mediation layer between the automated workflow engine and one or more users.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Taverna, the Interaction Service plug-in and web application are available as open source and can be downloaded from http://taverna.sourceforge.net/
authors.affiliation: Computational Biology Unit, Bergen Center for Computational Science, University of Bergen, 5008 Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lanzén
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oinn
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001690:Biological Science Disciplines / Q000379:methods*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface