The proposed approach, being operator independent, can offer new diagnostic tools in parallel to the visual location of the lesions and may improve multiparameter assessment of FDG PET/CT studies.
The apply_ primitive is provided to describe workflows with potentially unrelated branching by executing tools in parallel.
Dong et al 31 propose a prediction and analysis tool named ProteinSPA, which employs a specific protein structure prediction workflow designed to be executed in grid environments that integrates several bioinformatics tools in parallel.
Recently, several tools, such as iMetAMOS (Koren et al., 2014) and A5 (Tritt et al., 2012), approach this problem by exhaustively testing many tools in parallel and then identifying and selecting the best assembly.
In these cases one may initially opt for a direct method; or, as a viable alternative in most laboratories, one could run both direct and 2-stage tools in parallel, halting the computations when the first halts.
Therefore, RAMPART is designed to exploit high performance computing environments, such as clusters or shared memory machines, by executing tools in parallel where possible via the system's job scheduler.
