The {my}Grid Project: Services, Architecture and Demonstrator

Abstract

myGrid is an e-Science research project developing open source high-level middleware to support in silico experiments in biology. In silico experiments use databases and computational analysis rather than laboratory investigations to test hypothesis. This paper provides an overview of services the Grid project is developing, and the architecture in which they fit. Registries provide information about available data and computational services, while remote legacy bioinformatics applications are wrapped using a consistent distributed analysis framework Soaplab. As in conventional science, experimental method is as important as final results. myGrid