Taverna: lessons in creating a workflow environment for the life sciences: Research Articles
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Workflow in Grid Systems
Intelligent client for integrating bioinformatics services
Bioinformatics
REMORA: a pilot in the ocean of BioMoby web-services
Bioinformatics
Recycling workflows and services through discovery and reuse: Research Articles
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Selected Papers from the 2004 U.K. e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2004)
myExperiment: social networking for workflow-using e-scientists
Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Workflows in support of large-scale science
The myGrid ontology: bioinformatics service discovery
International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
Bioinformatics
SHARE: A Semantic Web Query Engine for Bioinformatics
ASWC '09 Proceedings of the 4th Asian Conference on The Semantic Web
Bioinformatics
Enhancing workflow with a semantic description of scientific intent
ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
Helping biologists effectively build workflows, without programming
DILS'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Data integration in the life sciences
Seven bottlenecks to workflow reuse and repurposing
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
Feta: a light-weight architecture for user oriented semantic service discovery
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
The SADI plug-in to IO informatics' sentient knowledge explorer
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences
Scientific workflows: eternal components, changing interfaces, varying compositions
ISoLA'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: technologies for mastering change - Volume Part I
Bioscientific data processing and modeling
ISoLA'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: applications and case studies - Volume Part II
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In the Taverna workflow design and enactment tool, users often find it difficult to both manually discover a service or workflow fragment that executes a desired operation on a piece of data (both semantically and syntactically), and correctly connect that service into the workflow such that appropriate connections are made between input and output data elements. The BioMoby project, and its successor the SADI project, embed semantics into their data-structures in an attempt to make the purpose and functionality of a Web Service more computable, and thereby facilitate service discovery during workflow construction. In this article, we compare and contrast the functionality of the BioMoby and SADI plug-ins to Taverna, with a particular focus on how they attempt to simplify workflow synthesis by end-users. We then compare these functionalities with other workflow-like clients we (and others) have created for the BioMoby and SADI systems, discuss the limitations to manual workflow synthesis, and contrast these with the opportunities we have found for fully automated workflow synthesis using the semantics of SADI.