Taverna Roadmap

If you have any comments on our proposed roadmap please contact us.

July 2010 – Taverna 2.2.0 Workbench

  • Support for offline editing
  • Workflow Validation reporting (identify potential problems before a long run)
  • Ability to load and share domain specific service sets
  • Retrying and parallelization of service calls
  • Pause/resume/cancel of running workflows
  • Faster stream aware provenance layer
  • Enhanced results view

July 2010 – Taverna Command Line Tool

  • Invoking Taverna 2.2 Engine as a command line application passing a workflow to be run as a parameter
  • A better option for long running workflows
  • Quicker startup time compared to Taverna Workbench

July 2010 – Taverna Server 2 alpha

  • Taverna Server 2 alpha based on the Taverna Command Line Tool
  • SOAP and REST interfaces to the Server

August 2010 – Draft SCUFL2 language specification

August 2010 – Taverna 3 Platform Alpha

  • Re-engineering the Taverna Engine using OSGi
  • Embeddable in applications
  • Support programmatic access to the Taverna Core
  • New Run/Execution Manager and Edits API

September 2010 – Taverna Server Beta

  • Support for running Taverna 1.7.x and Taverna 2.x workflows

September 2010 – SCUFL2 tools Beta

  • Including conversion from t2flow to SCUFL2, SCUFL2 to t2flow and SCUFL to SCUFL2
  • The supplied compiler will convert the above formats into internal Taverna workflow representation

October 2010 – SCUFL2 tools

  • A stabilised and fully tested version

October 2010 – Taverna 2.2 Workbench New Plugins

  • REST Support
  • Production BioCatalogue Plugin
  • Read and Write SCUFL2 workflows
  • ChemTaverna (Chemistry specific sets of services designed to work together with no or little glue code)
  • UseCase plugin (Cloud Integration)
  • AIDA plugin (Semantic Annotation)

October 2010 – Taverna Next Generation Workbench Alpha

  • Easier to use (patterns, examples and Component families)
  • Updated look and feel
  • Component based (services, factories, functions and domain sets)
  • More easily customisable for vertical markets

November 2010 – Taverna Server

  • Hardened, debugged and tested to deal with interactive data requests, improved security support, better job management and provenance requests

Other (more details to follow)

  • Ruby Gem to invoke Taverna
  • Ruby on Rails based Taverna Portal System