Taverna 2.1 Workbench

Examples of Taverna 2.1 Workbench workflows are also available to download.

Taverna 2.1 for Windows

  • Installer
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  • (116MB)

  • Selfextracting
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  • (112MB)
If you have administrator rights on your machine, you can download the Windows installer. A wizard should guide you through the installation to C:\Program Files and add Taverna to the Start menu. If you do not have a recent Java, the wizard will also help you install the newest Java from Sun.
If you do not have administrator rights, you can download the Windows archive instead – this is simply a self-extracting 7zip archive. You can place the extracted folder wherever you like. Start Taverna by double clicking on taverna.exe.
Note: It has been reported to us that sometimes on Windows, if you are downloading the Taverna archive (not the Windows installer!) on a wireless network that tend to drop the connection unexpectedly, you may get an incomplete download. This would be hard to spot unless you verified the checksum, but would result in Taverna failing to start properly. In this case, delete your download and whatever files were unzipped and download again. You can avoid this problem by using the Windows installer, which would fail to run if the download was not complete.
If you need to make any changes to the Java parameters, such as the amount of memory allocated (by default the minimum of 300 MB or 50% of free memory), or are a developer interested in debug messages, use taverna-debug.bat instead of the executable.

Taverna 2.1 for Mac OS X

  • Disk image
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  • (154MB)
Download the OS X disk image. After opening the disk image, a Finder window should appear. You can then drag the Taverna application into your Application folder, or wherever you prefer to keep the application. Double-click on the installed application (not the one in the disk image) to start Taverna.

Taverna 2.1 for Linux

  • Binary
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  • (149MB)
Download the Linux archive and unpack it using tar zxfv taverna-workbench-2.1.0.tar.gz or by double-clicking it in your desktop environment. Make sure that you have both SUN Java 1.5 JRE or higher and Graphviz installed.
Place the extracted folder wherever you like, start a terminal, and run ./taverna.sh to start Taverna. If you have any problems, double-check that you are using the correct java by running java -version

Taverna 2.1 source code

  • Source
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  • (116mb)
Taverna is distributed under the LGPL 2.1 licence. Note that building Taverna using Maven will download third-party libraries distributed under other free licences.
The latest source code for Taverna can be retrieved from our Subversion repository – we also recommend you to sign up to the taverna-hackers mailing list if you are a developer.
If you want to download the source code used for this release, you can either use the Subversion tag taverna-workbench-2.1.0 or download taverna-workbench-2.1.0-src.zip.