188 9 The Transformation Process
Figure 9.1 Immunoaffinity chromatography procedure for IgG shown as a series of
processing steps. The materials are shown in rectangular boxes, the processing steps
are shown in rounded boxes, and the attributes of a processing step are shown in
ellipses.transformation is commonly performed in a series of discrete steps. Each
step transforms input information into output information according to the
type of step and the attributes that have been chosen. An example of an
information transformation process is shown in figure 9.2.
The myGrid project,www.mygrid.org.uk, has developed a toolkit for
much more elaborate transformation processes. The Taverna workbench
supports the scientific process for in silico experiments, including manage-
ment, sharing and reusing the results, recording their provenance and the
methods used to generate them. The myGrid project has developed a com-
prehensive loosely-coupled suite of middleware components specifically to
support data intensive in silico experiments in biology. Workflows and query