Participatory Design of Pipeline tools and Web services in bioinformatics
Abstract
In this position paper, we describe a project for developing tools to
support biologists using bioinformatics programs and data within a
distributed architecture. This architecture relies on the use of Web
services as a layer for simple and interactive pipelines, and as a
means to help in services discovery. The design of the software is
rooted in a study of biologists' work practices with bioinformatics
tools that we observed during interviews. A video brainstorming
workshop provided us with information about critical features of the
future system. After a brief introduction about existing e-science
projects in bioinformatics, we describe the outcome of the interviews
and workshop and the challenges to face in the technical architecture
we envision.
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