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Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid Workshops (CCGRIDW'06)
p. 37
OBIGrid: Towards the ‘Ba’ for Sharing Resources, Services and Knowledge for Bioinformatics
Akihiko Konagaya, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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Open Bioinformatics Grid (OBIGrid) was
established in 2002 for sharing the bioinformatics
environment including computational resources, public
databases, and bioinformatics application tools over the Internet.
Grid is one of the most attractive cyber infrastructures for
achieving scalability in the computation power and data storage
necessary for bioinformatics. Grid also plays the role of ‘Ba’, the
basis of virtual organizations in which people share time and
place to work together. ‘Ba’ can extend beyond the boundaries of
current grid computing by utilizing web service technologies for
sharing databases, tools, and knowledge distributed all over the
world.
However, many issues regarding the widespread use of the web
services have been raised, such as the semantic gap between
bioinformatics workflows and the application programming
interfaces provided by web services. The key to solving such issues
is the bioinformatics ontology employed to establish
interoperability among biological databases and bioinformatics
application tools used by the web services. This paper proposes a
design of bioinformatics ontology based on triadic relations
among input-output data, commands, and databases, and
demonstrates its feasibility in the automatic generation of
bioinformatics workflows.
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Index Terms- Grid Computing, Web Services, Workflow,
Bioinformatics, Ontology
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Citation:
Akihiko Konagaya,
"OBIGrid: Towards the ‘Ba’ for Sharing Resources, Services and Knowledge for Bioinformatics,"
ccgrid,
p. 37,
Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid Workshops (CCGRIDW'06),
2006
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