A Web/grid portal implementation of BioSimGrid: a biomolecular simulation database

Author

Wu, Bing ; Dovey, Matthew ; Ng, Muan Hong ; Tai, Kaihsu ; Murdock, Stuart ; Jeffreys, Paul ; Cox, Simon ; Essex, Jonathan ; Sansom, Mark S P

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biochem., Oxford Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

5-7 April 2004

Firstpage

50

Abstract

The overall aim of the BioSimGrid project (www.biosimgrid.org) is to exploit the grid infrastructure to enable comparative analysis of the results of biomolecular simulations. In particular, we present the implementation of current BioSimGrid Web portal. The portal has a SOA (service oriented architecture) framework built on the layer of OGSA (open grid service architecture) and OGSA-DAI (open grid service architecture database access and integration) middleware. The PortalLib has been developed to allow RAD (rapid application development) of portal applications. The portal also integrates PKI (public key infrastructure) and supports two levels of distributed SSO (single sign on): grid certificate-based SSO for high security, and user/pass based SSO for maximal flexibility.

Keywords

Internet; biology computing; database management systems; grid computing; middleware; molecular biophysics; open systems; portals; simulation; BioSimGrid Web portal; BioSimGrid project; PortalLib; Web portal implementation; biomolecular simulation database; database integration; distributed single sign on; grid certificate-based SSO; grid portal implementation; middleware; open grid service architecture database access; public key infrastructure; rapid application development; service oriented architecture; user-pass based SSO; Analytical models; Biological system modeling; Biomembranes; Computational modeling; Data analysis; Distributed databases; Object oriented modeling; Portals; Proteins; Service oriented architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2108-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286589

Filename

1286589