Re: [GUSDEV] Support for workflows ?

[Steve F. <sfi...@pc...>]

however, we manage the build of massive projects such as PlasmoDB and 
AllGenes very successfully with the GUS Pipeline API.

a fancy workflow might be nice in concept, but, our simple pipeline api 
is very effective at managing the build of large datasets.

steve

Angel Pizarro wrote:

> Agreement with Mike here. GUS used to have a set of tables to capture 
> the state of workflows, such as a build of the dna assemblies. These 
> tables where agonized over and well thought out, but ultimately went 
> unused and have subsequently been deleted from the schema. There are 
> several reasons:
>
> -Most of the tasks we faced in a workflow where serial and did not 
> contain any sort of decision points.
> -Using flat files to record state and recover from errors works just 
> fine and is much easier to implement when the above holds true.
>
> Additionally, there are many workflow-focused open source projects out 
> there that you can use to define and record the state of complex 
> asynch workflows that are much more well thought out and are actually 
> supported by an enthusiastic community. I recommend that if you want 
> to pursue this further, you take advantage of work being done in the 
> workflow management systems space, and limit the use of GUS to a data 
> model that a particular workflow accesses.
>
> -angel
>
> Michael Saffitz wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Ricardo,
>>
>> GUS doesn't have direct support for workflows or webservices.
>>
>> There are, however, several groups that are using GUS as the data  
>> storage system for web services.  This usually involves writing a  
>> small amount of code to extract the data and deliver it.  There are  
>> also some groups that have expressed an interest in using GUS with  
>> workflows, so this is a good area for collaboration and development.
>>
>> GUS does have a pipeline API, but I suspect it's not quite what  
>> you're looking for.
>>
>> --Mike
>>
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Ricardo Balbi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   A doubt:
>>>     Has support for management of workflows in some schema of  gus 
>>> ?  Support for storage of the definition, instances, in and out  
>>> parameters, etc.
>>>    Also has support for web services?
>>>
>>> []'s,
>>> Ricardo Balbi
>>
>>
>>
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