A UML Activity Diagram Extension and Template for Bioinformatics Workflows: A Design Science Study

Laiz Heckmann Barbalho de Figueroa and Rema Salman

under Jennifer Horkoff supervision


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Summary

This thesis presents a UML extension with its concrete syntax and written template to document bioinformatics workflows. The produced artefacts were evaluated and validated in cooperation with three facilities and seven bioinformaticians following a data science methodology. The results of this work are our contribution to the bioinformatics domain and the ongoing research: Optimized Bioinformatics Workflows from Requirements Engineering of Solution Specifications.

Methodology

Depiction of the DSRM methodology used in this thesis