Scientific workflows normally consist of multiple applications acquiring and transforming data, running data intensive analyses and visualizing the results for scientific discovery. To compose and deploy such scientific workflows, an SOA platform can provide integration of third-party components, services, and tools. In this paper, we present our application of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to compose and deploy systems biology workflows. In developing this application, our solution uses MeDICi a middleware framework built on SOA platforms as an integration layer. We discuss our experience and lessons learnt about this solution that are generally applicable to scientific workflows in other domains.
Revised: February 10, 2012 |
Published: December 12, 2011
Citation
Liu Y., I. Gorton, A.S. Wynne, and A.V. Kulkarni. 2011.Scientific Workflows Composition and Deployment on SOA Frameworks. In IEEE 6th International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering, (SOSE 2011), December 12-14, 2011, Irvine, California, 134-139. Los Alamitos, California:IEEE Computer Society.PNNL-SA-82636.doi:10.1109/SOSE.2011.6139101