Dealing with reusability and reproducibility for scientific workflows
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Lifschitz, Sergio; Gomes, Luciana; Rehen, Stevens K.
- Source
- 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW) Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW), 2011 IEEE International Conference on. :625-632 Nov, 2011
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Proteins
Solid modeling
Electronic mail
Relational databases
Three dimensional displays
workflow
reproduce
reuse
provenance
- Language
Scientific Workflow Management Systems (SWfMS) are being widely used to represent and execute scientific experiments. One particular SWfMS feature that has received much attention by the scientific community is the automatic capture of provenance data. This allows users to track information about which resources and parameters were used to obtain such results, but also other important information to validate and publish an experiment. In the present work, we propose an approach for modeling and storing data that is consumed and produced by workflows executed by SWfMS. This approach has two main objectives: it aims (i) to support the strict reproducibility of an experiment and (ii) to allow the reuse of produced artifacts by keeping information about its origin.