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A '''bioinformatics workflow management system''' is a specialized form of [[Workflow#Workflow management system|workflow management system]] designed specifically to compose and execute a series of computational or data manipulation steps, or a [[workflows|workflow]], that relate to [[bioinformatics]].

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.