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BioinfoGRID White Paper now available for download
BioinfoGRID White paper: guidelines and recommendations for the scientific community based on the experience and the results gained from the BioinfoGRID project
Grid technology is a very important step forward from the Web, which simply allows the sharing of information over the internet. This paradigm of distributed computing aims to promote the development and advancement of technologies that provide seamless and scalable access to wide-area distributed resources. Computational Grids enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of a wide variety of geographically distributed computational resources, such as supercomputers, compute clusters, storage systems, data sources, instruments and people. This idea is analogous to the electric power Grid network, in which power generators are distributed but the users are able to access electric power without bothering about the source of energy and its location. Indeed, the Grid presents itself as a single, unified resource for solving large-scale compute and data intensive computing applications.
The BioinfoGRID European project aims to promote the Bioinformatics applications for life science, in order to carry out research based on the Grid networking technology. More specifically the BioinfoGRID project evaluates applications in the fields of Genomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics and Drug Discovery, reducing data calculation times by distributing the calculation on thousands of computers using the Grid infrastructure network created by the EGEE Project (6th Framework Program). The massive potential of Grid technology is indispensable when dealing with both the complexity of models and the enormous quantity of data, for example, in searching the human genome or when carrying out docking simulations for the study of new drugs. Users belonging to the Virtual Organisations related to the BioinfoGRID project are able to run Bioinformatics challenges on the Grid, enabling reliable in silico studies to support molecular biology.
The BioinfoGRID white paper provides guidelines and recommendations that have been drawn from our experience over the two year period of the project. On the basis of our findings we give advice to different user communities on how to take advantage of the power of the GRID.
BioinfoGRID White Paper now available for download
