VisFlow: A Visual Database Integration and Workflow Querying System

The adoption and availability of diverse application design and support platforms are making generic scientific application orchestration increasingly difficult. In such an evolving environment, higher level abstractions of design primitives are critically important using which end users have a chance to craft their own applications without a complete technical grasp of the lower level details. In this research, we introduce a novel scientific workflow design platform that supports high level tools for data integration, process description and analytics based on a visual language for naive users and advanced options for computing savvy programmers in one single platform, called VisFlow. We describe its salient features and advantages using a complex scientific application in natural resources and ecology. Video: https://youtu.be/ 2YSYVyOuuk.