Welcome to VisTrails’s documentation!

• User’s Guide
  • Preliminary Pages
    • Preface
  • An Introduction to VisTrails
    • What Is VisTrails?
    • Getting Started
  • Learning VisTrails By Example
    • Creating and Modifying Workflows
    • Groups and Subworkflows
    • Interacting with the Version Tree
    • Merging Two Version Trees
    • Querying the Version Tree
    • Spreadsheet
    • Tabular data package
    • Using Analogies to Update Workflows
    • Parameter Exploration
    • Provenance Browser
    • Mashups
    • Module Descriptions and Examples
  • Intermediate Concepts and VisTrails Packages
    • Parameter Widgets
    • Control Flow in VisTrails
    • The Control Flow Assistant
    • List Handling in VisTrails
    • Streaming in VisTrails
    • Parallel Flow in VisTrails
    • Connecting to a Database
    • Example: Web Services
    • Example: ITK
    • Persistence in VisTrails
    • Running commands on a remote server
    • VisTrails Server Setup
    • Embedding VisTrails Files Via Latex
    • Example: scikit-learn
• Developer’s Guide
  • Writing VisTrails Packages
    • Introduction
    • Who Should Read This Chapter?
    • An Example Module
    • An Example Package
    • Package Specification
    • Module Specification
    • Port Specification
    • Generating Modules Dynamically
    • Wrapping Command-line tools
    • For System Administrators
  • Command-line Arguments
    • Starting VisTrails via the Command Line
    • Specifying a User Configuration Directory
    • Passing Database Parameters on the Command Line
    • Running VisTrails in Batch Mode
    • Executing Workflows in Parallel
    • Executing Parameter Explorations from the Command Line
    • Finding Methods Via the Command Line
  • Job Submission
    • Monitoring Jobs
    • Job Handles
    • Using ModuleSuspended
    • Using JobMixin
  • Accessing the Execution Log
  • Creating a Control Flow Loop Module
    • Building your own loop structure
  • Using parallelization in VisTrails modules
    • Threading
    • Multiprocessing
    • IPython
  • Wrapping command line tools using package CLTools
    • Package CLTools
  • VisTrails API Documentation
    • Module Definition
    • Port Specification
    • Parameter Widget Configuration

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• Index
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