This technology has graduated.

Bioinformatic Workflow Builder Interface (BioWBI) is now available at http://213.26.249.182/biowbi/.

Among other successes, BioWBI is used in two strategic initiatives sponsored by the Italian Minister of Research:

• The International Bioinformatic Laboratory aims to set up an advanced bioinformatics and computational biology laboratory, focusing on basic and applied research in modern biology and biotechnologies.
• The Molecular Biodiversity Laboratory is an open-research initiative driven jointly by IBM in Italy and research partners from universities and the Italian Research council. Their goal is to build novel bioinformatic systems applied to human health, to monitor safety and risks; and to agro-industrial, to trace products along food production and supply chains.

BioWBI, along with Web Service for Bioinformatic Analysis Workflow, represents a seminal example of a Bioinformatic Workflow Management system. It has been considered by more than 30 scientific publications and cited in several books from scientific research groups in the Life Sciences domain.

BioWBI was created by the Italian IBM Innovation Center Life Sciences team. This is a specialized consulting team whose main focus is data and information integration and mining for life sciences areas such as pharma and research discovery (bioinformatic portal and integrated platforms), clinical genomics (information-based medicine), and agro-food industry (Risk Management connected with Quality and Security of food). The team creates and supports leading-edge life science applications as well as consulting projects for extending, transforming, and accelerating the adoption of advanced e-workplace technology for life sciences researchers. The IBM Innovation Center Life Sciences team is part IBM Global Business Service located in Bari, Italy. The lead authors of BioWBI are:

Pietro Leo, MSc., Dr. is an Executive IT architect. He is a permanent member of the IBM TEC Italy, affiliated with the IBM Academy of Technology. His areas of expertise include data, information and application integration, unstructured information management, mining and semantic/conceptual indexing and search, bioinformatics, molecular biodiversity, healthcare, and wireless solutions. He was the technical representative for a number of multi-millions complex projects for IBM customers and Industrial Research projects. He is the author or co-author of more than 50 publications.

Gaetano Scioscia, Ph.D is an IT architect. He graduated in 1995 with a degree in physics and earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1999 in Bari. In 1998, Dr. Scioscia joined IBM, where he worked as an IT specialist and then an IT architect in such fields as data and application integration, and information and knowledge management. During recent years, his work has been focused on bioinformatics. Currently he is the IBM Innovation Lab bioinformatic team technical leader.

For platform(s):

• Java

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For topics:

• life sciences
• bioinformatics
• analysis

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For industries:

• Healthcare and Life Sciences