A Work Flow Engine for Microbial Genome Research

We present architecture, design and application of a highly modular engine for processing complex workflows of computational tasks. The specific implementation of this engine focuses on the integration of a wide range of bioinformatics software packages into a single system tailored to microbial genome research. The corresponding web application provides a user-friendly interface to all integrated tools and offers comprehensive functionality required for the analysis of microbial genomes. Individual tools can be chained in pipelines allowing users to efficiently handle complicated workflows involving large datasets.