The Taverna suite of tools are bringing together a range of features to make it easier for users to find, design and execute complex workflows and share them with other people.
Freely available
- Java, open source, LPGL licensed
Suite of tools to design, edit and execute workflows
- Workflow design and execution in Taverna Workbench
- Command line execution of workflows
- Remote execution of workflows on a Taverna server
- Invoke workflows from the Internet
Wide range of services and extensible architecture
- Service discovery
- Various service types available: WSDL-style and RESTful Web services, BioMart, BioMoby, SoapLab, R, Beanshell, Excel and csv spreadsheets
- Service creation for external tools or Java libraries
- Calling tools/scripts on a local machine or remote machines (via ssh)
- Extensible service plug-in architecture for adding new service types
- Fully integrated support for browsing curated service catalogues, such as the BioCatalogue, for Web services (WSDL/SOAP and REST)
Secure
- Support for secure services (HTTP authentication, WS-Security, X.509 client authentication)
- Secure management of users’ credentials
Versatile Workbench
- Tabs for finding, designing and executing workflows
- Fully graphical workflow design
- Drag and drop workflow components
- Comprehensive undo/redo
- Built-in help facility
- Annotations for describing workflows, services, inputs, outputs
- Workflow validation and debugging
Create your own or start from existing workflows
- Easy design of new workflows
- Load existing workflows (from a disk, myExperiment or a URL)
- View workflow layout and logic
- Modify existing workflows
- Load workflows in off-line mode (when disconnected from the Internet)
- Nested workflows (sub workflows)
- Workflow validation during design time for debugging while composing a workflow
- Built-in detection when a service’s interface changes or a service go off-line during design time
Find workflows created by others and share yours
- Full myExperiment search options for browsing workflows
- Publish workflows on myExperiment for use by others
Execute and debug your workflows
- Execute workflows
- Remember previously used workflow inputs
- Save workflow input values used to a file
- Load workflow input values from a file
- Pipelining and streaming of data
- Implicit iteration of service calls
- Conditional and repeated calling of services
- Customizable looping over a service
- Failover and retry of service calling
- Parallel execution and configurable number of concurrent threads
- Improved error handling and reporting for debugging during run time
- Monitor workflow execution
- Pause/resume or cancel workflow execution
- Manage previous runs and workflow results
- View intermediate results and debug workflows at run time
- Filter and save intermediate and final workflow results
Track workflow runs and results
- Record workflow execution provenance
- Review provenance of previous workflow runs
- Experimental export of provenance in the OPM and Janus formats
Support
- End user technical support and e-mail help desk
- Tutorials and workshops
