On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Hernán Morales Durand < hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I decided to give a try to Aare or Workflow in Pharo 6, following instructions in https://github.com/Netstyle/Workflow . However, the installation script raised a Warning about missing WADynamicVariable class. Should I install Seaside?
I've been using a couple of bioinformatics workflows the last years, specially Taverna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Taverna) and Galaxy (https://www.galaxyproject.org/) both of them huge code bases maintained since some years now and with very active communities from biological sciences. I found a cool video showing Galaxy features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYzMWWRMN8
As impressive as you may think, they are not a Panacea for workflow execution. An installation process could get really complicated, for example interfacing with nginx and PostgreSQL, and customization of toolshed could end in endless editing XML specifications.
I just skim through the white paper, but unfortunately didn't recognized any of the compared features or workflow systems. Is Aare intended to support only business workflows patterns? Considering the Galaxy video above, do you think scientific workflows could be supported in Aare or it is a completely different route?
âYes this is very interesting. Even for my work on epidemiological modeling, it make sense to have such worflows, but I think this is possible to compete with tools like Galaxy.â âRegards,â -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC/UY1) "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/