Taverna can connect to a wide variety of bioinformatics resources and has been successfully applied to a number of bioinformatics problems, listed below according to their sub-domains.
Bioinformatics systems/tools using Taverna:
- BioWEP – bioinformatics workflow enactment portal
- BioLinux – Ubuntu Linux distribution that includes Taverna and many other bioinformatics programs
Biodiversity
Gene and genome expression
- Next Generation Sequencing using Taverna 2 Server on Amazon cloud
- TavernaPBS – next generation sequencing analysis using a computational cluster that uses a PBS queuing system and Taverna 2 Workbench
- Coordination and Sustainability of International Mouse Informatics Resources (CASIMIR) – workflows to associate mouse genome and phenome
- Developmental Gene Expression Map (DGEMap)- analysis of human gene expression during development
- Graves disease – identification of genes responsible
- Examination of gene expression from MicroArray data using R – statistical analysis of gene expression
- SIGENAE – development of workflows to analyse breeding animal data
- Trypanosomiasis – identification of genes responsible for sleeping sickness
- Williams-Beuren syndrome – automation and confirmation of gene characterization
- PLANET – integration of plant genome resources
- Annotation of genomes
- Shared Genomics
- e-Fungi – functional genomics in fungal species
Protein and proteomics
- Analysis of mass spectrometry data in proteomics
- Anthrax analysis – identification of proteins secreted by bacteria
- eFamily – integrating data from different databases
- European Model for Bioinformatics Research And Community Education (EMBRACE) – calling services on a grid; recovering a database
- iSpider – querying multiple data sources
- ProDom – running of Taverna workflows behind a portal to search a protein database
Biology and systems biology
- ENFIN – Enabling Systems Biology – calling of wrapped tools within workflows
- Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB) – modelling metabolomic pathways
- Systems Biology Operational Software (SB.OS) – a live DVD based on Ubuntu Linux that comes with a comprehensive list of Systems Biology Software (including Taverna)
- Tav4SB - Taverna workflows for systems biology, in particular for analysis of the kinetic models of biological systems
- Measuring of enzyme characteristics of yeast
- Automatic Functional Annotation in a distributed Web Service Environment (AFAWE) – protein prediction and annotation by a tool that calls workflows
- PLANET (A Network of European Plant Databases) – calling of workflows from a portal
Biomedicine and disease-related research
- Analysis of the anthrax bacterium
- Study of resistance into trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
- Identification of genes linked to Graves disease
- Characterisation of genes associated with Williams-Beuren syndrome
- caGrid – research into predicting limphoma cancer
- EU-ADR – detecting adverse drug reactions through the exploitation of clinical data from electronic healthcare records
