Title
Detecting distant homologies on protozoans metabolic pathways using scientific workflows
Abstract
Bioinformatics experiments are typically composed of programs in pipelines manipulating an enormous quantity of data. An interesting approach for managing those experiments is through workflow management systems (WfMS). In this work we discuss WfMS features to support genome homology workflows and present some relevant issues for typical genomic experiments. Our evaluation used Kepler WfMS to manage a real genomic pipeline, named OrthoSearch, originally defined as a Perl script. We show a case study detecting distant homologies on trypanomatids metabolic pathways. Our results reinforce the benefits of WfMS over script languages and point out challenges to WfMS in distributed environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1504/IJDMB.2010.033520
IJDMB
Keywords
DocType
Volume
distant homologies, neglected diseases, protozoans, Kepler, scientific workflows, WfMS, workflow management systems
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1748-5673
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
23
10