State of the nation in data integration for bioinformatics
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Using Provenance to Support Real-Time Collaborative Design of Workflows
Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes
New interactions with workflow systems
European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Designing beyond the Product --- Understanding Activity and User Experience in Ubiquitous Environments
E-Biology Workflows with Calvin
WISE '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Designing Workflows on the Fly Using e-BioFlow
ICSOC-ServiceWave '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
MEDCollector: multisource epidemic data collector
ITBAM'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Information technology in bio- and medical informatics
Building Mashups by Demonstration
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
MEDCollector: multisource epidemic data collector
Transactions on large-scale data- and knowledge-centered systems IV
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Workflows systems are steadily finding their way into the work practices of scientists. This is particularly true in the in silico science of bioinformatics, where biological data can be processed by Web Services. In this paper we investigate the potential of evolving the users' interaction with workflow environments so that it more closely relates to the mode in which their day to day work is carried out. We present the Data Playground, an environment designed to encourage the uptake of workflow systems in bioinformatics through more intuitive interaction by focusing the user on their data rather than on the processes. We implement a prototype plug-in for the Taverna workflow environment and show how this can promote the creation of workflow fragments by automatically converting the users' interactions with data and Web Services into a more conventional workflow specification.