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There are currently many different workflow systems. Some have been developed more generally as [[scientific workflow system]]s for use by scientists from many different disciplines like [[astronomy]] and [[earth science]]. All such systems are based on an abstract representation of how a computation proceeds in the form of a directed graph, where each node represents a task to be executed and edges represent either data flow or execution dependencies between different tasks.

Each system typically provides visual front-end allowing the user to build and modify complex applications with little or no programming expertise.

==Examples==

* [[Anduril (workflow engine)|Anduril]] bioinformatics and image analysis

* [[BioBIKE]]

* [[Discovery Net]]: one of the earliest examples of a scientific workflow system

* [[Galaxy (computational biology)|Galaxy]]: initially targeted at [[genomics]]

* [[PipeLine Pilot]]

* [http://www.tavaxy.org Tavaxy] <ref>{{cite doi|10.1186/1471-2105-13-77}}</ref>: A cloud-based bioinformatics workflow system that integrates features from both Taverna and Galaxy.

* [[Taverna workbench]]: widely used in bioinformatics

* [[Triana]]

* [[KNIME]]

* [[VisTrails]]

==Comparisons between workflow systems==