Integrative Biology - the challenges of developing a collaborative research environment for heart and cancer modelling

  • Authors:

  • Sharon Lloyd;Dave Gavaghan;Andrew Simpson;Matthew Mascord;Clint Seneurine;Geoff Williams;Joe Pitt-Francis;David Boyd;Damian Mac Randal;Lakshmi Sastry;Srikanth Nagella;Katie Weeks;Ronald Fowler;Daniel Hanlon;James Handley;Gianni de Fabritiis

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Oxford, Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX13QD, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX13QD, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX13QD, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX13QD, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX13QD, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX13QD, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX13QD, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX13QD, United Kingdom;CCLRC, Chilton, DIDCOT, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom;CCLRC, Chilton, DIDCOT, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom;CCLRC, Chilton, DIDCOT, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom;CCLRC, Chilton, DIDCOT, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom;CCLRC, Chilton, DIDCOT, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom;CCLRC, Chilton, DIDCOT, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom;Leeds University, The School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom;University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The Integrative Biology project is building a Grid infrastructure which will enable biomedical scientists to develop accurate multi-scale computational models of the heart and of cancer tumours. This infrastructure will remove many of the constraints limiting research progress today by providing access to leading-edge supercomputing and data management resources and by improving facilities to support collaboration between scientists distributed around the world. This paper describes how the project is addressing some specific technical challenges in developing such a collaborative research environment.