title: Implementing bioinformatic workflows within the bioextract server.
abstract: Computational workflows in bioinformatics are becoming increasingly important in the achievement of scientific advances. These workflows typically require the integrated use of multiple, distributed data sources and analytic tools. The BioExtract Server (http://bioextract.org) is a distributed service designed to provide researchers with the web ability to query multiple data sources, save results as searchable data sets, and execute analytic tools. As the researcher works with the system, their tasks are saved in the background. At any time these steps can be saved as a workflow that can then be executed again and/or modified later.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA. Carol.Lushbough@usd.edu
authors.forename: Carol M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Lushbough
authors.forename: Michael K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Bergman
authors.forename: Carolyn J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lawrence
authors.forename: Doug
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jennewein
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brendel
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020407:Internet; D012985:Software Design