Taverna is a software tool for designing and executing workflows, created by the myGrid project. Taverna allows users to integrate many different software tools, including Web services. Equipped with a powerful graphical user interface and implemented in Java, Taverna allows an end-user with limited computing background and limited technical resources and support to construct highly complex analyses over a variety of data and computational resources from any kind of client, as long as the latter supports Java.

The Taverna system is used to retrieve data from public databases. ARC in included as a plug-in and allows users to access a wide range of resources.

ARC-enabled calculation shows a 3-5 fold better usage of resources due to uniform accessibility and retrieval of results

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The latest results are being presented at the BOSC09 (The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) in Stockholm (June 27-29, 2009).

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