Viable system model and integrated information behaviour to capture coordinated actions in a situation ­dependent and recursive states of bioinformatics experiments

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to present the Viable System Model (VSM) and Integrated Information Behaviour Model (IIBM) concepts, which is believe to be applicable for systems analysis in order to design an automated workflow system for bioinformatics experimental work. In this study, the work of bioinformatics experiments was treated as virtual organization in a situationdependent state. The meaning of situation-dependent state is that the bioinformatics experiments were conducted in a particular situation. Therefore, the focus of the situation in this study is the situation where bench scientists perform bioinformatics experiments for determining the function of a gene sequence.