[en] In life sciences, scientists are confronted with an exponential growth of biological data, especially in the genomics and proteomics area. The efficient management and use of these data, and its transformation into knowledge are basic requirements for biological research. Therefore, integration of diverse applications and data from geographically distributed computing resources will become a major issue. We will present the status of our efforts for the realization of an automated protein prediction pipeline as an example for a complex biological workflow scenario in a Grid environment based on Web services. This case study demonstrates the ability of an easy orchestration of complex biological workflows based on Web services as building blocks and Triana as workflow engine.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
MAY, Patrick ; Zuse Institute Berlin - ZIB > Computer Science Research
Ehrlich, Hans-Christian
Steinke, Thomas
Language :
English
Title :
ZIB Structure Prediction Pipeline: Composing a Complex Biological Workflow through Web Services
Publication date :
2006
Event name :
12th International Euro-Par Conference
Event place :
Dresden, Germany
Event date :
August 28 – September 1, 2006
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Euro-Par 2006 Parallel Processing
Editor :
Nagel, Wolfgang E.
Walter, Wolfgang V.
Lehner, Wolfgang
Publisher :
Springer
ISBN/EAN :
978-3-540-37783-2
Collection name :
Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Volume 4128 2006
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