Taverna allowed users to integrate many different software components, including WSDL SOAP or REST Web services, such as those provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the European Bioinformatics Institute, the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ), SoapLab, BioMOBY and EMBOSS.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Taverna Workbench provided a desktop authoring environment and enactment engine for scientific workflows.

The Taverna workflow engine was also available separately, as a Java API, command line tool or as a server.

Taverna was used by users in many domains, such as bioinformatics,[9][10] cheminformatics,[11] medicine, astronomy,[12] social science, music, and digital preservation.

Taverna Workbench includes the ability to monitor the running of a workflow and to examine the provenance of the data produced, exposing details of the workflow run as a W3C PROV-O RDF provenance graph,[16] within a structured Research Object bundle[17] ZIP file that includes inputs, outputs, intermediate values and the executed workflow definition; together this format is called TavernaProv.