Abstract :
Scientific research is increasingly digital. Some activities, such as data analysis, search, and simulation, can be accelerated by letting scientists write workflows and scripts that automate routine activities. These capture pieces of the scientific method that scientists can share. The Taverna Workbench, a widely deployed scientific-workflow-management system, together with the myExperiment social Web site for sharing scientific experiments, follow six principles of designing software for adoption by scientists and six principles of user engagement.
Keywords :
scientific information systems; software engineering; Taverna Workbench; scientific method; scientific research; scientific workflow management system; scientists; social Web site; software design; Analytical models; Application software; Automation; Computational modeling; Data analysis; Data processing; Laboratories; Proteins; Software design; Software tools; Taverna workflow workbench; agile software development; myExperiment social Web site; scientific workflow management systems;
