InfraPhenoGrid: A scientific workflow infrastructure for plant phenomics on the Grid

In this paper, we introduce InfraPhenoGrid, the infrastructure we designed and deploy to efficiently manage datasets produced by the PhenoArch plant phenomics platform in the context of the French Phenome Project. Our solution consists in deploying scientific workflows on a Grid using a middleware to pilot workflow executions. Our approach is user-friendly in the sense that despite the intrinsic complexity of the infrastructure, running scientific workflows and understanding results obtained (using provenance information) is kept as simple as possible for end-users.