Supporting Projects

ICEAGE: The International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education
ERA is investing heavily in e-Infrastructure (e-I) to stimulate industry, improve the lives of citizens, accelerate research and gain international competitive advantage. For Europe to realise this expectation, there needs to be a diverse, knowledgeable, creative community, skilfully exploiting e-Infrastructure. ICEAGE will catalyse the necessary infrastructure and skills by establishing a world-wide initiative to inspire innovative and effective Grid Education (GE) . By Grid Education we mean not only education in the use of the Grid, but also the use of the Grid in education. We use the term "Grid" in a broad sense to include computing and communications technology, working practices and policies that underpin e-Infrastructure.

BIOINFOGRID project: Bioinformatics Grid Application for life science
The BioinfoGRID project aims to connect many European computer centres in order to carry out Bioinformatics research and to develop new applications in the sector using a network of services based on futuristic Grid networking technology. More specifically the BioinfoGRID project will make research in the fields of Genomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics and applications in Molecular Dynamics much easier, reducing data calculation times thanks to the distribution of the calculation at any one time on thousands of computers across Europe and the world.

EMBRACE: Network of Excellence - A European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education
The objective of EMBRACE is to draw together a wide group of experts throughout Europe who are involved in the use of information technology in the biomolecular sciences. The EMBRACE Network of Excellence will optimise informatics and information exploitation by pure and applied biological scientists in both the academic and commercial sectors.
The network will work to integrate the major databases and software tools in bioinformatics, using existing methods and emerging Grid service technologies. The integration efforts will be driven by an expanding set of test problems representing key issues for bioinformatics service providers and end-user biologists. As a result, groups throughout Europe will be able to use the EMBRACE service interfaces for their own local or proprietary data and tools.

SwissBioGrid
A European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education
The Swiss Bio Grid is an initiative of national scope that will support large-scale computational applications in bioinformatics, biosimulation, chemoinformatics and bio-medical sciences by utilizing distributed high-performance computing, high speed networks, massive data collections and archives, as well as the necessary software tools and data integration capabilities.