@techreport{TR-IC-06-04,
  number = {IC-06-04},
  author = {Luciano Antonio Digiampietri and José de Jésus Pérez Alcázar and Claudia Bauzer Medeiros and João Carlos Setubal},
  title = {A framework based on semantic {Web} services and {AI} planning
           for the management of bioinformatics scientific workflows},
  month = {February},
  year = {2006}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 22 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       Bioinformatics activities are growing all over the world, with
       proliferation of data and tools. This brings new challenges,
       such as how to understand and organize these resources, how to
       exchange and reuse successful experimental procedures, tools
       and data, and how to provide interoperability among data and
       tools across different sites, and for distinct user
       profiles. This paper describes an effort towards these
       directions. It is based on combining research on databases, AI
       and scientific workflows, on the Semantic Web, to design,
       reuse, annotate and document bioinformatics experiments or
       parts thereof. The resulting framework allows the integration
       of heterogeneous data and tools, and the design of experiments
       as scientific workflows, which are stored in
       databases. Moreover, it takes advantage of the notion of
       planning in AI to support automatic or interactive composition
       of tasks. These ideas are being implemented in a prototype and
       validated on real bioinformatics data.
  }
}