BioGRID - Uniform Platform for Biomoleculago Nazar Applications (Research Note)
Euro-Par '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
Automatically Composed Workflows for Grid Environments
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Artificial Intelligence and Grids: Workflow Planning and Beyond
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Automating Experiments Using Semantic Data on a Bioinformatics Grid
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Biological data integration: wrapping data and tools
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
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In silico bioinformatics experiments involve integration of and access to computational tools and biological databases. The emerging grid computing technologies enable bioinformatics scientists to conduct their researches in a virtual laboratory, in which they share public databases, computational tools as well as their analysis workflows. However, the development of grid applications is still a nightmare for general bioinformatics scientists, due to the lack of grid programming environments, standards and high-level services. Here, we present a system, which we named Bioinformatics: Ask Any Questions (BAAQ), to automate this development procedure as much as possible. BAAQ allows scientists to store and manage remote biological data and program resources, to build analysis workflows that integrate these resources seamlessly, and to discover knowledge from available resources. This paper addresses two issues in building grid applications in bioinformatics: how to smoothly compose an analysis workflow using heterogeneous resources and how to efficiently discover and re-use available resources in the grid community. Correspondingly an intelligent grid programming environment and an active solution recommendation service are proposed. Finally, we present a case study applying BAAQ to a bioinformatics problem