Trends in IT Innovation to Build a Next Generation Bioinformatics Solution to Manage and Analyse Biological Big Data Produced by NGS Technologies

Table 1

Commonly used scientific Workflow Management software.

Platform name	Initial creator	License	Bioinfo	Website
Galaxy	Emory University (USA) and Penn State University (USA)	Free ()	+++	http://galaxyproject.org/
KDE	Inforsense (UK)	Commercial	++	http://www.inforsense.com/
Kepler	UC Davis, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara (USA)	Free	+/−	http://kepler-project.org/
Knime	University of Konstanz (Germany)	Free and commercial	++	https://www.knime.org/
Pipeline Pilot	Accelrys (USA)	Commercial	+++	http://accelrys.com/
Taverna workbench	EBI (UK)	Free	+++	http://www.taverna.org.uk/
VIBE	Incogen (USA)	Commercial	++	http://www.incogen.com/

Columns “Bioinfo” show the level of use of these tools in bioinformatics. The “+++” indicates that the software is used by many teams, “++” indicates the software is starting to be used and “+/−” indicates that very few teams use this software in this field, and “−” the software has not been used yet in that field. The “” sign indicates that some additional fees are required for access to third parties services such as cloud platform.