Description
The Taverna team are pleased to announce that Taverna 2.3.0 Workbench and the Command Line Tool are now available for
download
.
Taverna 2.3.0 includes new service types, integration with service catalogues and experimental export of provenance information. Here are a few of the new features in the Workbench:
-
REST service
allowing you to perform GET, POST, PUT and DELETE operations configured using a template
-
XPath service
where you can create an XPath expression from an example XML document
-
Tool service
that allows you to run commands or scripts as part of your workflow
-
Searching and browsing of
service catalogues
, such as the BioCatalogue, and addition of those services to your Workbench or workflow
-
Experimental export of provenance in the
Open Provenance Model
and Janus formats
-
Help via the online
user manual
Taverna 2.3.0 also includes the Command Line Tool that allows you to execute workflows outside of the Workbench. The Command Line Tool is available either as a
stand-alone download
or bundled with the
Workbench
.
Tutorials and examples
Tutorials
for Taverna are available under the Taverna 2.x documentation.
Example workflows
can be found under the Starter pack tab in the myExperiment perspective of the Workbench. They can also be downloaded from the myExperiment Web site at
http://www.myexperiment.org/packs/192
.
Known issues
Although Taverna 2.3.0 contains many improvements there are some known issues with it. These are detailed in known-issues.txt in the download bundle. An updated and more detailed list can be found in our issue tracker Jira at:
http://www.mygrid.org.uk/dev/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10220
.
System requirements
Details of Taverna’s system requirements are available on the Taverna
website
.
Note that Taverna 2.3.0 now requires separate installation of GraphViz on Mac OS X.
Licence and source code
Taverna is distributed under the
LGPL 2.1 licence
.
The source code for Taverna can be retrieved from our
Subversion repository
. We also recommend you to sign up to the
taverna-hackers mailing list
if you are a developer.
Reporting problems
If you find any problems that are not listed in known-issues.txt, then please send them to the
taverna-users
or
taverna-hackers
mailing lists. Our support team is monitoring the mailing lists and will try to respond to questions as soon as possible.
If you prefer not to subscribe to our mailing lists, you can send your questions directly to
support@mygrid.org.uk
and a member of our support team will respond to your inquiries.