Various plugins are currently being developed (or updated to work with the latest Taverna release) by third parties in collaboration with the Taverna team.
e-LICO
A plugin for Taverna 2.1.2 is being developed as part of the e-Lico project.
The plugin will allow users to specify the data mining goal that they want to achieve and the type of data that it will operate on. The plugin then talks to the eProPlan developed at the University of Zurich. A set of workflows that can achieve the goal is returned; the workflow chosen by the user can be included in a workflow to perform the data mining goal.
The enactment of the data mining makes use of Rapid Miner services – http://rapid-i.com/.
The plugin is under development by Simon Jupp, Rishi Ramgolam and Alan Williams of the University of Manchester.
AIDA
AIDA plugin, based on AIDA Search and Storage components, helps Taverna users during workflow editing. Currently it provides search functionality for myExperiment workflows, as well as knowledge resources contained in an RDF repository. It will soon allow users to annotate workflow components using concepts, classes and query results from the AIDA Thesaurus Browser.
Plugin exists for Taverna 1.7.1 and Taverna 2.0/2.1 and is being updated for Taverna 2.1.2.
CDK-Taverna
Andreas Truszkowski is updating the plugin that the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) project have developed for Taverna 1.7.2, to allow the CDK tools to be used within Taverna 2.1.2 workflows.
caGrid
As part of the caGrid project, the Taverna team together with the caGrid team have developed the caGrid service discoverer plugin and remote workflow execution service plugin for Taverna 2.1 beta2.
This service discoverer plugin is used to query the caGrid Index Service for the available caGrid data and analytical services and add them in the Service Panel in the Taverna Workbench.
The remote execution plugin passes a workflow definition file, including the appropriate inputs, to a generic remote caGrid service, where the workflow is then executed. This is useful for long-running caGrid workflows, when you can simply send to the remote service for execution and disconnect.
Wei Tan and Dina Sulakhe are working on updating the plugins for Taverna 2.1.2.
