Bioinformatics workflows and web services in systems biology made easy for experimentalists.

Workflows are useful to perform data analysis and integration in systems biology. Workflow management systems can help users create workflows without any previous knowledge in programming and web services. However the computational skills required to build such workflows are usually above the level most biological experimentalists are comfortable with. In this chapter we introduce workflow management systems that reuse existing workflows instead of creating them, making it easier for experimentalists to perform computational tasks.

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