Biomed GRID School

12-16 May 2008, Varenna, Italy

The Biomed Grid School is aimed at biomedical research students, post-docs, and senior researchers with an interest in using or developing applications for distributed computing environments.

The Grid school will focus on:

• New and future grid developments
• New challenges brought by projects the students and staff are involved in

Aim

The aim of the school is to provide bioinformatics and biomedical developers the opportunity:

• to learn to use new services and functionalities made available by new middleware releases (gLite)
• to implement applications in the EGEE GRID environments
• to build high level interfaces for GRID and Web Services for data provision and management
• to improve skills in Web Services, Workflow technology and GRID services for Bioinformatics e Biomedical applications
• to learn how to generate complex workflows of Bioinformatics and System Biology analysis