The RapidMiner Plugin for Taverna: Bringing Data Mining Tools to Bioinformatics Workflows

Knowledge discovery through pattern finding in data is central to modern molecular biology, which now has thousands of databases and similar numbers of tools for processing those data. Any data analysis in molecular biology involves gathering and processing data from many sources, even before the analysis for the central biological question takes place. Taverna (http://www.taverna.org.uk) is a workflow workbench that allows bioinformaticians to create data pipelines involving distributed Web services and other forms of tool; these workflows gather and manage data in order to perform analyses that ask biological questions.