Detecting distant homologies on protozoans metabolic pathways using scientific workflows.
Bioinformatics experiments are typically composed of programs in pipelines manipulating an enormous quantity of data. An interesting approach for managing those experiments is through workflow management systems (WfMS). In this work we discuss WfMS features to support genome homology workflows and present some relevant issues for typical genomic experiments. Our evaluation used Kepler WfMS to manage a real genomic pipeline, named OrthoSearch, originally defined as a Perl script. We show a case study detecting distant homologies on trypanomatids metabolic pathways. Our results reinforce the benefits of WfMS over script languages and point out challenges to WfMS in distributed environments.
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Sérgio Manuel Serra
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Computer Science Department, COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), P.O. Box 68511, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. serra@cos.ufrj.br
Batista
Vanessa
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Silva
Edno
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Tosta
Frederico
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Vilela
Clarissa
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Cuadrat
Rafael
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Tschoeke
Diogo
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Dávila
Alberto M R
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Campos
Maria Luiza Machado
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Mattoso
Marta
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D018503:Genome, Protozoan; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways / Q000235:genetics; D012586:Science; D017385:Sequence Homology; D057188:Workflow