PSE-Bio: A Grid Enabled Problem Solving Environment for Bioinformatics

Author

Xie, Jiang ; Zhang, Xiaobin ; Zhang, Wu

Author_Institution

Shanghai Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2007

fDate

10-13 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

529

Lastpage

535

Abstract

To utilize technology of various areas effectively and efficiently, a grid enabled problem solving environment for bioinformatics (PSE-Bio) is built. This paper describes the architecture of PSE-Bio and proposes the new layer, Agent bundle, based on classical architecture with three layers. As a service bundle, Agent provides common single mechanism to access grid services, by which portal services can communicate with key grid components. Agent bundle not only search and select appropriate software in grid, but also have strategies to reuse local legacy program to save time and cost. Users can utilize PSE-Bio easily without any details about grid technology because PSE-Bio is service- oriented. An example application of PSE-Bio workflow is implemented.

Keywords

biology computing; grid computing; Agent bundle; PSE-Bio; bioinformatics; grid enabled problem solving environment; Application software; Bioinformatics; Biology computing; Computer architecture; Computer science; Grid computing; High performance computing; Middleware; Problem-solving; Systems biology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Science and Grid Computing, IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3064-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2007.63

Filename

4426928