• Souley Madougou
  • Mark Santcroos
  • Ammar Benabdelkader
  • Barbera D.C. Van Schaik
  • Shayan Shahand
  • Vladimir Korkhov
  • Antoine H.C. Van Kampen
  • Sílvia D. Olabarriaga

Scientific research has become very data and compute intensive because of the progress in data acquisition and measurement devices, which is particularly true in Life Sciences. To cope with this deluge of data, scientists use distributed computing and storage infrastructures. The use of such infrastructures introduces by itself new challenges to the scientists in terms of proper and efficient use. Scientific workflow management systems play an important role in facilitating the use of the infrastructure by hiding some of its complexity. Althought most scientific workflow management systems are provenance-aware, not all of them come with provenance functionality out of the box. In this paper we describe the improvement and integration of a provenance system into an e-infrastructure for biomedical research based on the MOTEUR workflow management system. The main contributions of the paper are: presenting an OPM implementation using relational database backend for the provenance store, providing an e-infrastructure with a comprehensive provenance system, defining a generic approach to provenance implementation, potentially suitable for other workflow systems and application domains and demonstrating the value of this system based on use cases presenting the provenance data through a user-friendly web interface.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHealthGrid Applications and Technologies Meet Science Gateways for Life Sciences
PublisherIOS Press
Pages91-100
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781614990536
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event10th HealthGrid Conference and the 4th International Workshop on Science Gateways for Life Sciences, IWSG-Life 2012 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 21 May 201225 May 2012

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume175
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference10th HealthGrid Conference and the 4th International Workshop on Science Gateways for Life Sciences, IWSG-Life 2012
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period21/05/1225/05/12

    Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

    Research areas

  • Biomedical research, Distributed computing, E-science, Grid computing, Provenance, Scientific workflow management systems

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