Access and reuse of authoritative phylogenetic knowledge have been a longstanding challenges in the evolutionary biology community — leading to a number of research efforts (e.g. focused on interoperation, standardization of formats, and development of minimum reporting requirements). The Phylotastic project was launched to provide an answer to such challenges — as an architectural concept collaboratively designed by evolutionary biologists and computer scientists. This paper describes the first comprehensive implementation of the Phylotastic architecture, based on an open platform for Web services composition. The implementation provides a portal, which composes Web services along a fixed collection of workflows, as well as an interface to allow users to develop novel workflows. The Web services composition is guided by automated planning algorithms and built on a Web services registry and an execution monitoring engine. The platform provides resilience through seamless automated recovery from failed services.

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Phylotastic 的设计和实现，一种进化生物学的服务架构

获取和重用权威的系统发育知识一直是进化生物学界长期面临的挑战——导致了许多研究工作（例如，专注于互操作、格式标准化和最低报告要求的制定）。Phylotastic 项目的推出旨在为这些挑战提供答案——作为由进化生物学家和计算机科学家共同设计的建筑概念。本文描述了 Phylotastic 架构的第一个综合实现，它基于一个用于 Web 服务组合的开放平台。该实现提供了一个门户，它沿着固定的工作流集合组成 Web 服务，以及一个允许用户开发新工作流的界面。Web 服务组合由自动规划算法指导，并建立在 Web 服务注册中心和执行监控引擎之上。该平台通过从失败的服务中无缝自动恢复来提供弹性。