The BioinfoGRID Project

The BioinfoGRID Specific Support Action (SSA) will combine Bioinformatics services and applications for molecular biology users with the Grid Infrastructure created by the EGEE Project (6th Framework Program). BioinfoGRID will evaluate genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and molecular dynamics applications studies based on GRID technology.

The BioinfoGRID SSA will establish a common ground for collaboration between the European Grid Infrastructure providers and the Bioinformatics research user community in various fields of Bioinformatics applications (Biology, Computational Chemistry, Medicine and Biotechnology). This will be achieved through specific studies for each reference application in the Bioinformatics domain in which experts of various disciplines can collaborate on the solution of highly complex problems.

The programme will cover the most contemporary uncharted fields of investigation in biological and medical research. The project will support studies on applications for distributed laboratory management systems for microarray technology, for gene expression studies, for gene data mining, for analysis of cDNA data, for Phylogenetics analysis, for distributed database access, for protein functional analysis and for molecular dynamics simulations in GRID. A new challenge of the Wide In Silico Docking on Malaria and an international conference for GRID Bioinformatics applications will be organized by the BioinfoGRID project.

project starting date: 1st January 2006

project ending date: 31st December 2007