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| Get the open source version of VisTrails [[downloads|here]].
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| == Publications and Presentations ==
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| [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=ipaw2006.pdf Managing Rapidly-Evolving Scientific Workflows] (by Juliana Freire, Claudio T. Silva, Steven P. Callahan, Emanuele Santos, Carlos E. Scheidegger and Huy T. Vo) Invited paper, in the proceedings of the International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW), 2006. [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=ipaw2006-slides.pdf presentation]
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| [http://www.sci.utah.edu/publications/SCITechReports/UUSCI-2006-017.pdf Visualization in Radiation Oncology: Towards Replacing the Laboratory Notebook] (by Erik W. Anderson, Steven P. Callahan, George T. Y. Chen, Juliana Freire, Emanuele Santos, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Claudio T. Silva and Huy T. Vo) SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-2006-17, University of Utah, 2006. | |
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| [http://www.sci.utah.edu/publications/SCITechReports/UUSCI-2006-016.pdf Using Provenance to Streamline Data Exploration through Visualization] (by Steven P. Callahan, Juliana Freire, Emanuele Santos, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Claudio T. Silva and Huy T. Vo) SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-2006-016, University of Utah, 2006. | |
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| [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=sciflow2006.pdf Managing the Evolution of Dataflows with VisTrails] (by Steven P. Callahan, Juliana Freire, Emanuele Santos, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Claudio T. Silva and Huy T. Vo) IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications (SciFlow) 2006. [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=sciflow2006-slides.pdf presentation]
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| [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=sigmod2006.pdf VisTrails: Visualization meets Data Management] (by Steven P. Callahan, Juliana Freire, Emanuele Santos, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Claudio T. Silva and Huy T. Vo) In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 2006. [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=sigmod2006-slides.pdf presentation]
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| [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=vistrails-tutorial.pdf VisTrails: A Short Tutorial] (by Steven P. Callahan, Juliana Freire, Emanuele Santos, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Claudio T. Silva and Huy T. Vo) Technical Report. University of Utah, 2005.
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| [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=vis2005.pdf VisTrails: Enabling Interactive Multiple-View Visualizations] (by Louis Bavoil, Steven P. Callahan, Patricia J. Crossno, Juliana Freire, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Claudio T. Silva and Huy T. Vo) In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization, 2005. [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=vis2005-slides.pdf presentation]
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| [http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=PUB&id=poster.pdf A poster on VisTrails applications]
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| == Documentation ==
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| === [[Users_Guide|User's Guide]] ===
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| On the link above is an (always evolving) User's Guide.
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| === Video Tutorial ===
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| We are in the process of creating a video tutorial that can be used to guide users through the process of learning to use VisTrails. The videos that follow below are a preliminary version of this tutorial, and will keep evolving towards a complete tutorial.
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| |http://www.vistrails.org/images/VT_Thumbs_PiplineBuilder.jpg
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| |'''The Pipeline Builder'''
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| These videos demonstrate the basic usage of the Pipeline Builder, including how to add modules, connect modules, and modify module parameters.
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=Tutorial_001_AddModule-H.264_LAN_960x540.mov|text=Adding a Module}}
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=Tutorial_002_AddParameter-H.264_LAN_960x540.mov|text=Adding a Parameter}}
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=Tutorial_003_ConnectingModule-H.264_LAN_960x540.mov|text=Connecting Two Modules}}
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=Tutorial_004_Add_ParameterModule-H.264_LAN_960x540.mov|text=Adding a Parameter via Modules}}
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| These videos demonstrate more advanced use of the Pipeline Builder window. Parameter exploration allows easy mutli-dimensional comparative visualization generation to quickly and thoroughly explore data.
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=Tutorial_005_ParameterExploration-H.264_LAN_960x540.mov|text=Parameter Space Exploration}}
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| These videos show interaction with the Version Tree. Emphasis here is on interaction with the widgets, searching and refining the versions displayed, and performing diffs between versions to highlight changes.
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=Tutorial_006_VersionTreeInteraction-H.264_LAN_960x540.mov|text=Version Tree Interaction}}
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=Tutorial_007_VisualDiff-H.264_LAN_960x540.mov|text=The Visual Diff}}
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=Tutorial_008_QueryByExample-H.264_LAN_960x540.mov|text=Querying the Version Tree and Pipelines}}
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| === Videos ===
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| Please note that some of these videos were generated using versions of VisTrails, and the interface might look different than the one available in the most up-to-date version.
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| This video shows basic usage of VisTrails by going through three examples.
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=demo_high_res.mov|text=High Resolution(81 MB)}}
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| |'''Radiation Oncology'''
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| This video shows how some of VisTrails features were used on a Radiation Oncology study.
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| As this is an old version of the system, some of the features are not currently available.
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| {{qt|link=http://www.vistrails.org/download/download.php?type=MEDIA&id=vt-rad-onc.mov|text=High Resolution(70 MB)}}
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| == People == | | == People == |
Hello, and welcome to the VisTrails Wiki.
VisTrails Overview
Recently, workflows have been emerging as a paradigm for representing and managing complex
computations. Workflows can capture complex analyses processes at various levels of detail and
provide the provenance information necessary for reproducibility, result publication and result
sharing among collaborators. Because of the formalism they provide and the automation they
support, workflows have the potential to accelerate and transform the information analysis
process. Workflows are rapidly replacing primitive shell scripts as evidenced by the release of
Apple’s Mac OS X Automator, Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation, and the SGI
Scientific Workflow Solution.
VisTrails is a new scientific workflow management system developed at the University of Utah that
provides support for data exploration and visualization. Whereas workflows have been
traditionally used to automate repetitive tasks, for applications that are exploratory in nature, very
little is repeated---change is the norm. As an engineer or scientist generates and evaluates
hypotheses about data under study, a series of different, albeit related, workflows are created
while a workflow is adjusted in an interactive process. VisTrails was designed to manage these
rapidly-evolving workflows. VisTrails streamlines the creation, execution and sharing of complex
visualizations, data mining or other large-scale data analysis applications. By automatically
managing the data, metadata, and the data exploration process, VisTrails allows users to focus on
the task at hand and relieves them from tedious and time-consuming tasks involved in organizing
the vast volumes of data they manipulate. VisTrails provides infrastructure that can be combined
with and enhance existing visualization and workflow systems.
Although VisTrails was originally built to address the needs of exploratory scientific applications,
the infrastructure it provides is very general. This became clear as the system was demoed to
people from different domains, both from industry and academia. VisTrails has the potential to
reduce the time to insight in virtually any exploratory task.
Download
Publications and Presentations
Documentation
People
People
Principal Investigators
Current Team
Previous Members
- Louis Bavoil
- Marcelo Nery dos Santos
- Wayne Tyler
This work has been partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grants
IIS-0513692,
CCF-0401498,
CNS-0541560, OISE-0405402,
OCE-0424602,
CNS-0524096,
IIS-0534628,
the Department of Energy under the SciDAC program
(SDM
and
VACET),
IBM Faculty Awards (2005 and 2006) and a University of Utah Seed Grant.