BioOpera

BioOpera is an application for the composition of various bioinformatics applications built on top of the opera architecture. The project was begun in 1999 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. BioOpera provides a GUI tool for the construction of workflows from web services and grid services. BioOpera represents a workflow process template as a DAG, and translates this set of activities into an execution script in the OCR (Opera Canonical Representation) language. Additionally, the web service invocation engine within BioOpera uses Axis, and the grid service component uses Condor, Globus, and SSH.

Resources

• BioOpera homepage
• Some related publications here