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标题：Trends in Use of Scientific Workflows: Insights from a Public Repository and Recommendations for Best Practice
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作者：Richard Littauer ; Karthik Ram ; Bertram LudÃ¤scher 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Digital Curation
印刷版ISSN：1746-8256
出版年度：2012
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：92-100
语种：English
出版社：University of Edinburgh
摘要：Scientific workflows are typically used to automate the processing, analysis and management of scientific data. Most scientific workflow programs provide a user-friendly graphical user interface that enables scientists to more easily create and visualize complex workflows that may be comprised of dozens of processing and analytical steps. Furthermore, many workflows provide mechanisms for tracing provenance and methodologies that foster reproducible science. Despite their potential for enabling science, few studies have examined how the process of creating, executing, and sharing workflows can be improved. In order to promote open discourse and access to scientific methods as well as data, we analyzed a wide variety of workflow systems and publicly available workflows on the public repository myExperiment. It is hoped that understanding the usage of workflows and developing a set of recommended best practices will lead to increased contribution of workflows to the public domain.