- General Workbench plugins that extend how you can use Taverna:
- The Dataplayground plugin that allows users to construct workflows oriented around their data.
- The Feta search plugin to allow users to search the Feta registry of services.
- The Logbook plugin that allows the recording of information about the provenance of a workflow run.
- The myExperiment and WHIP (Workflow Hosted In Portals) plugin that allows users to browse and run workflows from myExperiment.
- Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology have developed three plugins: a PDF renderer, a comma-separated values (csv) renderer and an Excel to cvs converter. The plugin site is http://dbk-ed.mib.man.ac.uk/taverna/1.7/plugins/.
- The University of Southampton have developed a Processor Status Plugin for Taverna 1.7.0 that checks if WSDL and SoapLab processors are running and if their specification has changed since the workflow was created. The plugin site is http://kraz.omii.ac.uk/workflow-monitor/plugins/.
- New service type plugins that allow you to include different types of services in your workflow:
- The interaction service plugin that allows workflows to include services that interact with users
- The BioMoby plugin is integrated with Taverna and allows users to include BioMoby services within their workflows.
- A Soaplab2 plugin that allows users to include Soaplab2 services in their workflows. The plugin site is http://soaplab.sourceforge.net/taverna-plugin/.
- The CDK-Taverna plugin that gives users access to CDK services. The plugin’s Web site can be found at http://cdk-taverna.de/plugin/.
- Ingo Wassink from the University of Twente, NL has updated the Taverna Rshell plugin to be compatible with R 2.7+ (and the newest Rserve version). This version is also backwards compatible with R 2.3+ and the corresponding Rserve version.
- omixed have developed a plugin to allow access to “customisable storage system for scientific data”. The plugin site is http://www.omixed.org/taverna/plugin/.
- Execution plugins that allow you to include services run on a grid, or to run your workflow on a grid or external server:
- The localworker JSDL plugin that produces JSDL compatible with GridSAM-2.0.1 Web services.
- The remote execution plugin that allows workflows to be run on a remote execution service i.e. a machine other than the user’s.
- A myProxy manager plugin is available from the myGrid team’s sandbox site. The URL is http://www.mygrid.org.uk/taverna/updates/1.7.1/plugins/sandbox/.
- The ARC plugin that allows users to to access computational grids for remote computations and usage of grid-based storage elements. The plugin site is http://taverna.nordugrid.org/.
- caGrid have developed a plugin to allow users to add grid services to a workflow. The plugin site is http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~madduri/taverna/.







