Bioinformatics applications are naturally distributed, due to distribution of involved data sets, experimental data and biological databases. They require high computing power, owing to the large size of data sets and the complexity of basic computations, may access heterogeneous data, where heterogeneity is in data format, access policy, distribution, etc., and require a secure infrastructure, because they could access private data owned by different organizations. The Problem Solving Environment (PSE) is an approach and a technology that can fulfil such bioinformatics requirements. The PSE can be used for the definition and composition of complex applications, hiding programming and configuration details to the user that can concentrate only on the specific problem. Moreover, Grids can be used for building geographically distributed collaborative problem solving environments and Grid aware PSEs can search and use dispersed high performance computing, networking, and data resources. In this work, the PSE solution has been chosen as the integration platform of bioinformatics tools and data sources. In particular an experiment of multiple sequence alignment on large scale, supported by the LIBIPSE, is presented.

High Throughput Protein Similarity Searches in the LIBI Grid Problem Solving Environment

Mirto M;EPICOCO, Italo;Fiore S;ALOISIO, Giovanni
2007-01-01

Abstract

Bioinformatics applications are naturally distributed, due to distribution of involved data sets, experimental data and biological databases. They require high computing power, owing to the large size of data sets and the complexity of basic computations, may access heterogeneous data, where heterogeneity is in data format, access policy, distribution, etc., and require a secure infrastructure, because they could access private data owned by different organizations. The Problem Solving Environment (PSE) is an approach and a technology that can fulfil such bioinformatics requirements. The PSE can be used for the definition and composition of complex applications, hiding programming and configuration details to the user that can concentrate only on the specific problem. Moreover, Grids can be used for building geographically distributed collaborative problem solving environments and Grid aware PSEs can search and use dispersed high performance computing, networking, and data resources. In this work, the PSE solution has been chosen as the integration platform of bioinformatics tools and data sources. In particular an experiment of multiple sequence alignment on large scale, supported by the LIBIPSE, is presented.
2007
9783540747666
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