Welcome to Taverna
The Taverna workbench is a free software tool for designing and executing workflows, created by the myGrid project, and funded through OMII-UK.
For more information about Taverna please visit the myGrid website
Taverna allows users to integrate many different software tools, including web services from many different domains, such as chemistry, music and social sciences. Bioinformatics services include those provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, The European Bioinformatics Institute, the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ), SoapLab, BioMOBY and EMBOSS.
The Taverna Workbench provides a desktop authoring environment and enactment engine for scientific workflows. The myExperiment social web site supports finding and sharing of workflows and has special support for Taverna workflows. The Taverna workbench, myExperiment and associated components are developed and maintained by the myGrid team, in collaboration with the open source community.
Taverna 1.7.1
Taverna 1.7.1, the most recent version of Taverna 1 is available for download;
or read more about Taverna's requirements. Taverna is written in Java 5, and runs on a selection of platforms.
Taverna 2.0
Taverna 2.0, the initial release of the new Taverna 2 is also available for download.
What is Taverna about?
The best way to understand what Taverna is about and what it could potentially do for you is to use it is to read What is a workflow?. Effectively Taverna allows a scientist with limited computing background and limited technical resources and support to construct highly complex analyses over public and private data and computational resources, all from a standard PC, UNIX box or Apple computer. The screenshot below shows the workbench in action during the design of a example workflow.
Who are we?
Taverna is developed by the myGrid team. myGrid has involved the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), IT Innovation, the School of Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle Centre for Life, School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester and the Nottingham University Mixed Reality Lab. and University of Southampton. Additional development effort has come from the Biomoby project, Seqhound, Biomart and various individuals across the planet. Development is coordinated through the facilities generously provided by SourceForge.net . Taverna's development is driven by the requirements of scientists around the world..
System requirements
Taverna will happily run on any modern PC or Mac, running any recent version of Windows, Linux, OSX and most UNIX like operating systems (we can't test them all but we believe it should work). As long as your computer has a network connection and can run Java version 5 you should be fine. There are no databases or analysis applications to install as these are all accessed over the network. More details are available on the myGrid website.