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The GA4GH Task Execution Application Programming Interface: Enabling Easy Multicloud Task Execution.

Alexander Kanitz, Matthew H McLoughlin, Liam Beckman, GA4GH Cloud Workstream, Venkat S Malladi, Kyle Ellrott

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Article in Computing in science & engineering. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Managing workflow executions with WESkit.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Alexander KanitzUniversity of Basel, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3468-0652
Matthew H McLoughlinMicrosoft Research and AI, Redmond, WA, 98052, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9458-7855
Liam BeckmanOregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-4585-9181
GA4GH Cloud Workstream
Venkat S MalladiMicrosoft Research and AI, Redmond, WA, 98052, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0144-0564
Kyle EllrottOregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6573-5900

Funding

Implementing the Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL)U24HG010263 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Enis Afgan, VINCENT JAMES CAREY · 2018 to 2026
$23.8M
A Federated Galaxy for user-friendly large-scale cancer genomics researchU24CA231877 · NCI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI GOECKS, JEREMY · 2018 to 2022
$3.9M
High Performance Computing and Machine Learning Infrastructure for Oregon Life SciencesS10OD034224 · OD · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI ELLROTT, KYLE · 2023 to 2023
$2.0M
OHSU Center for Specialized Data Analysis as part of the GDANU24CA264007 · NCI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI ELLROTT, KYLE, SPELLMAN, PAUL T. · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS U24 CA231877NCI NIH HHS U24 CA264007NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG010263NIH HHS S10 OD034224
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Task Execution Service (TES) application programming interface (API) is a standardized schema and API for describing and executing batch execution tasks. It provides a common way to submit and manage tasks to a variety of compute environments, including on-premises high-performance computing and high-throughput computing systems, cloud computing platforms, and hybrid environments. The TES API is designed to be flexible and extensible, allowing it to be adapted to a wide range of use cases, such as "bringing compute to the data" solutions for federated and distributed data analysis, or load balancing across multicloud infrastructures. This API has been adopted by numerous different service providers and is utilized by several workflow engines, yielding a single abstracted interface for developers and researchers. Using its capabilities, genome research institutes are building extensible hybrid compute systems to study life science.

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PMID40792191
PMCPMC12336797

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