TY - GEN
T1 - Web service orchestration for bioinformatics systems
T2 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007
AU - Gonzalez, Graciela
AU - Balasooriya, Janaka
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The number of web services, applications, data sources and scripts available to biomedical researchers increases day by day. Complex analysis, annotation, and data integration could potentially be orchestrated from these services, if only they could be seamlessly connected. Biomedical researchers often do not have the time or expertise required to download, install, and adapt these tools, nor would the input and output formats required make this adoption easy. In this short paper, we provide a preview of the challenges that biomedical applications present to the use of web services, and explore existing workflow definition frameworks for web service orchestration. We conclude that the current offering of support software for this task is not at the level to be desired to provide a viable answer to the challenges of orchestrating complex service-based biomedical applications, but the benefits to be gained from such support invites further systematic research in this area.
AB - The number of web services, applications, data sources and scripts available to biomedical researchers increases day by day. Complex analysis, annotation, and data integration could potentially be orchestrated from these services, if only they could be seamlessly connected. Biomedical researchers often do not have the time or expertise required to download, install, and adapt these tools, nor would the input and output formats required make this adoption easy. In this short paper, we provide a preview of the challenges that biomedical applications present to the use of web services, and explore existing workflow definition frameworks for web service orchestration. We conclude that the current offering of support software for this task is not at the level to be desired to provide a viable answer to the challenges of orchestrating complex service-based biomedical applications, but the benefits to be gained from such support invites further systematic research in this area.
KW - Bioinformatics
KW - Web service composition
KW - Workflow
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:46849112443
SN - 0769529240
SN - 9780769529240
T3 - Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007
SP - 1226
EP - 1227
BT - Proceedings - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2007
Y2 - 9 July 2007 through 13 July 2007
ER -