Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

• Program: Partenariat Hubert Curien (PHC) Procope (Jointly funded by Egide and DAAD)

• Project acronym: SOSW

• Project title: Sharing and Optimizing Scientific Workflows

• Duration: 2013 - 2015

• Coordinator: Sarah Cohen-Boulakia

• International Partner

  • U. Humboldt (Berlin, Allemagne)

  • Institute for Computer Science

  • Ulf Leser

• Abstract : Considerable effort has been put into the development of scientific workflow management systems. They support scientists in developing, running, and monitoring chains of data analysis programs. A variety of systems have reached a level of maturity that allows them to be used by scientists for their bioinformatics experiments, especially including analysis of NGS data. However, each scientific group has its own way of analyzing NGS data, using a particular set of tools, in a particular order. The aim of this project is to exploit the complementary skills of the two European groups involved to develop approaches promoting exchange of (optimized) workflows.