Section: Software and Platforms

SPFlow

Participant : Sarah Cohen-Boulakia [correspondant] .

Scientific workflow systems are numerous and equipped of provenance modules able to collect data produced and consumed during workflow runs to enhance reproducibility. An increasing number of approaches have been developed to help managing provenance information. Some of them are able to process data in a polynomial time but they require workflows to have series-parallel (SP) structures. Rewriting any workflow into an SP workflow is thus particularly important.

Spflow answers this need and takes in a workflow (from the Taverna system) and provide a runnable and provenance equivalent (Taverna) workflow."

Impact: The tool is currently used by Taverna's users from the University of Manchester and more generally by myExperiment users.

Availability: Distributed under the terms of the licence since 04/02/2013 on simple demand to the author(s) at http://www.lri.fr/ chenj/SPFlow/ .