International Business Machines Corporation
Dependency-driven workflow management

Abstract:

Aspects include querying, by a processing system, a workflow database for a desired target entity. The processing system traverses a dependency graph that defines one or more entity and action sequences of a workflow that result in creating the desired target entity based at least in part on failing to locate the desired target entity in the workflow database. The workflow can be a bioinformatics workflow to analyze one or more digital representations of biological data. The processing system queries the workflow database to determine an entity existence status of each entity in the one or more entity and action sequences. The processing system schedules execution of an associated action that outputs each entity identified as non-existent based at least in part on the entity existence status and the one or more entity and action sequences to create the desired target entity.