[lsg-rg] FW: [BioInformatics Group] NETTAB 2005 Workshop on Workflows management in bioinformatics, Naples, October 2005

[Angulo, David]

FYI

David S. Angulo
Faculty
College of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Science
DePaul University
dangulo at cti.depaul.edu


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Romano [mailto:paolo at ist.unige.it]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:39 AM
> To: BioInformaticsGroup at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BioInformatics Group] NETTAB 2005 Workshop on Workflows
> management in bioinformatics, Naples, October 2005
> 
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Do you have any plans for next october?
> NETTAB 2005 is being announced.
> 
>                          NETTAB 2005 Workshop on:
> 
>                            Workflows management:
>           new abilities for the biological information overflow
> 
>                             5-7 October, 2005,
>                Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
> 
>                        http://www.nettab.org/2005/
> 
> This is the fifth in a series of workshops that intend to introduce
> and discuss some of the most innovative and promising network tools
> and applications in bioinformatics.
> 
> The NETTAB 2005 workshop is focused on:
> "Workflows management: new abilities for the biological information
> overflow".
> 
> It is well known that bioinformatics has to cope with one of the
hugest
> amount of information in all knowledge domains. This does not only
include
> biological sequences and structures, but also and increasingly
microarray
> data, metabolic pathways, interaction maps, gene networks.
> Moreover, there is an exponential increase of this information (e.g.,
DNA
> sequences increased more than 10% during last three months), so that
it
> won't be locally manageable soon.
> 
> This huge amount of data is also largely distributed over the network,
has
> heterogeneous data structures and information systems and, often, even
a
> different semantics. The same heterogeneicity applies to the many
> available
> softwares.
> 
> Moreover, the biomedical research domain is one of the fastest
evoluting
> research areas. New hypothesis and knowledges are accumulated daily,
often
> leading to new data and elaboration needs. User needs are often very
> peculiar,
> deeply different from one application domain to another. In this
frame,
> the
> development of general purpose applications is difficult, both for the
> different users' needs and the quickly accumulating knowledges, and
> limited
> to essential tools.
> 
> Biological information is made available to researchers through web
sites.
> Biologists connect to many sites and switch among them to submit and
> retrieve
> preliminar and intermediate data. Final achievements are often the
result
> of a manual integration activity. The huge amount of information makes
its
> access un-exhaustive and inefficient and requires the development of
> complex
> searching and retrieval softwares. They can be developed to perform
this
> integration activity, provided that they are taught the semantics of
the
> information, how to link data and how to pipe retrieval and analysis
> steps.
> 
> According to the Workflow Management Coalition, a workflow is "a
> computerized
> facilitation or automation of a business process, in whole or part".
> Its main goal is the implemention of data analysis processes in
> standardized
> environments. Its main advantages relates to:
> 
> - effectiveness: being an automatic procedure, it frees the
bioscientist
> from
>   repetitive interactions with the web and it supports good practice,
> - reproducibility: analysis can be replicated over time,
> - reusability: intermediate results can be reused,
> - traceability: the workflow is carried out in a transparent analysis
>   environment.
> 
> Advantages of changing current biological information management from
a
> human-oriented to a machine-oriented approach are therefore clear.
Machine
> orientation is quickly improving, both as to technologies and tools
and as
> to its diffusion in the biomedical domain. Many Web Services have been
> implemented, even by some of the most important network service
Institute,
> such as EBI and NCBI. Technologies related to registries of biological
web
> services and related implementation are also emerging, e.g. bioMOBY.
> 
> It is therefore not surprising that implementation of workflows
management
> software already started. In recent years, we had Biopipe, an add-on
to
> bioperl for pipelines management, GPipe, an extension of the Pise
> interface,
> and, especially, Taverna, the most well known workflow management tool
> that
> is being developed within MyGrid project. And many others are coming.
> 
> You can have a look at the presentation of the NETTAB 2005 workshop
given
> by Paolo Romano at the end of the NETTAB 2004 workshop in Camerino.
> See http://www.nettab.org/2005/IntroductionToNETTAB05.pps .
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> On behalf of the Organizing Committee
> Paolo Romano
> --
> Paolo Romano (paolo.romano at istge.it)
> National Cancer Research Institute
> Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy
> Tel: +39-010-5737-288  Fax: +39-010-5737-295
> 
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