UGE4B: An Universal Grid Environment for Bioinformatics Research

Author

Gang, Chen ; Wu, Yongwei ; Zheng, Weimin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

381

Lastpage

388

Abstract

Recent years, grid technology has been used widely in the fields of scientific research. In this paper, we present a universal grid environment for bioinformatics research (UGE4B). Although there have been several similar projects successfully constructed in the world, we need to meet some unique requirements from bioinformatics research in China. UGE4B consists of 6 components, including portal, task management, data management, information server, security and computing node. As a national-wide bioinformatics research platform, UGE4B is built through interconnecting multiple sub grids provided by each bioinformatics institutes. Besides provides a universal portal to end users for bioinformatics computing and data accessing, UGE4B also supported some special bioinformatics applications

Keywords

biology computing; grid computing; portals; security of data; data management; information server; portal; task management; universal grid environment for bioinformatics research; Bioinformatics; Biology computing; Data analysis; Distributed computing; Genomics; Grid computing; High performance computing; Image databases; Portals; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Grid and Cooperative Computing Workshops, 2006. GCCW '06. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hunan

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2695-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCCW.2006.96

Filename

4031579