- 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.
- 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/.