<s>
Anduril	B-Application
is	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
component-based	O
workflow	O
framework	O
for	O
scientific	O
data	O
analysis	O
developed	O
at	O
the	O
Systems	O
Biology	O
Laboratory	O
,	O
University	O
of	O
Helsinki	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Anduril	B-Application
is	O
designed	O
to	O
enable	O
systematic	O
,	O
flexible	O
and	O
efficient	O
data	O
analysis	O
,	O
particularly	O
in	O
the	O
field	O
of	O
high-throughput	O
experiments	O
in	O
biomedical	O
research	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
workflow	O
system	O
currently	O
provides	O
components	O
for	O
several	O
types	O
of	O
analysis	O
such	O
as	O
sequencing	O
,	O
gene	O
expression	O
,	O
SNP	O
,	O
ChIP-on-chip	O
,	O
comparative	O
genomic	O
hybridization	O
and	O
exon	O
microarray	O
analysis	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
cytometry	O
and	O
cell	B-General_Concept
imaging	I-General_Concept
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
Anduril	B-Application
,	O
processing	O
steps	O
are	O
implemented	O
using	O
components	O
,	O
which	O
are	O
reusable	O
executable	O
code	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
written	O
in	O
any	O
programming	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Components	O
are	O
wired	O
together	O
into	O
a	O
workflow	O
,	O
or	O
a	O
component	O
network	O
,	O
that	O
is	O
executed	O
by	O
the	O
Anduril	B-Application
workflow	O
engine	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Workflow	O
configuration	O
and	O
execution	O
can	O
be	O
done	O
from	O
Eclipse	B-Application
,	O
a	O
popular	O
multipurpose	O
GUI	O
,	O
or	O
from	O
the	O
command	O
line	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
core	O
Anduril	B-Application
engine	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
and	O
components	O
are	O
written	O
in	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
programming	O
languages	O
,	O
including	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
R	B-Language
,	O
MATLAB	B-Language
,	O
Lua	B-Language
,	O
Perl	B-Language
and	O
Python	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Components	O
may	O
also	O
have	O
dependencies	O
on	O
third-party	O
libraries	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Bioconductor	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Components	O
for	O
cell	B-General_Concept
imaging	I-General_Concept
and	O
microarray	O
analysis	O
are	O
provided	O
but	O
additional	O
components	O
can	O
be	O
implemented	O
by	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Anduril	B-Application
core	O
has	O
been	O
tested	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
Windows	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Commenting	O
follows	O
the	O
syntax	O
of	O
Java	B-Language
:	O
</s>
<s>
Anduril	B-Application
can	O
be	O
extended	O
on	O
multiple	O
levels	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Moksiskaan	O
is	O
a	O
data	B-General_Concept
integration	I-General_Concept
framework	O
for	O
the	O
cancer	O
research	O
and	O
molecular	O
biology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
great	O
majority	O
of	O
these	O
tools	O
are	O
implemented	O
as	O
Anduril	B-Application
components	O
and	O
functions	O
.	O
</s>
