title: graph2tab, a library to convert experimental workflow graphs into tabular formats.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Spreadsheet-like tabular formats are ever more popular in the biomedical field as a mean for experimental reporting. The problem of converting the graph of an experimental workflow into a table-based representation occurs in many such formats and is not easy to solve.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We describe graph2tab, a library that implements methods to realise such a conversion in a size-optimised way. Our solution is generic and can be adapted to specific cases of data exporters or data converters that need to be implemented.
  
  
  METHODS
  The library source code and documentation are available at http://github.com/ISA-tools/graph2tab.
authors.affiliation: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK. brandizi@ebi.ac.uk
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brandizi
authors.forename: Natalja
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kurbatova
authors.forename: Ugis
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sarkans
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rocca-Serra
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D011381:Programming Languages; D057188:Workflow