Bio-jETI: a service integration, design, and provisioning platform for orchestrated bioinformatics processes.
BACKGROUND
With Bio-jETI, we introduce a service platform for interdisciplinary work on biological application domains and illustrate its use in a concrete application concerning statistical data processing in R and xcms for an LC/MS analysis of FAAH gene knockout.


METHODS
Bio-jETI uses the jABC environment for service-oriented modeling and design as a graphical process modeling tool and the jETI service integration technology for remote tool execution.


CONCLUSIONS
As a service definition and provisioning platform, Bio-jETI has the potential to become a core technology in interdisciplinary service orchestration and technology transfer. Domain experts, like biologists not trained in computer science, directly define complex service orchestrations as process models and use efficient and complex bioinformatics tools in a simple and intuitive way.
Margaria
Tiziana
T
Universität Potsdam, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany. margaria@cs.uni-potsdam.de
Kubczak
Christian
C
Steffen
Bernhard
B
D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface