DocumentCode
1933811
Title
Grid Added Value to Address Malaria
Author
Breton, V. ; Jacq, N. ; Hofmann, M.
Author_Institution
Lab. de Phys. Corpusculaire, Univ. Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand
Volume
2
fYear
2006
fDate
16-19 May 2006
Firstpage
40
Lastpage
40
Abstract
Through this paper, we call for a distributed, Internet-based collaboration to address one of the worst plagues of our present world, malaria. The spirit is a non-proprietary peer-production of information-embedding goods. And we propose to use the grid technology to enable such a world wide "open source" like collaboration. The first step towards this vision has been achieved during the summer on the EGEE grid infrastructure where 46 million ligands were docked for a total amount of 80 CPU years in 6 weeks in the quest for new drugs
Keywords
Internet; diseases; grid computing; groupware; medical computing; EGEE grid infrastructure; distributed Internet-based collaboration; grid technology; information-embedding goods; ligands; malaria; nonproprietary peer-production; Africa; Bioinformatics; Collaboration; Diseases; Drugs; Genomics; Grid computing; Immune system; Testing; Vaccines;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2006. CCGRID 06. Sixth IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Singapore
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2585-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CCGRID.2006.1630933
Filename
1630933
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