4th EGEE User Forum/OGF 25 and OGF Europe's 2nd International Event

Session

Bioinformatics and Biomedicine

5 Mar 2009, 16:00

Le Ciminiere, Catania, Sicily, Italy

Description

Life Sciences is a very active field of research using the EGEE infrastructure. Several EGEE related projects are also exploring the use of gLite middleware for bioinformatics and healthcare. For several years now, the Biomed Virtual Organisation keeps standing as the first non LHC Virtual Organisation consuming about 5% of the infrastructure resources.The User Forum is a wonderful opportunity to get an overview of the present adoption of grids in the Life Sciences communities through the dedicated oral sessions session but also through the posters and demos exhibition as well as the OGF Life Sciences and e-Health workshop. Complementary to the "medical imaging" session, the "bioinformatics and biomedicine" session programme reflects the variety of topics currently addressed on EGEE and its related projects.

13. Using a pilot job framework for cancer research on the Dutch Life Science Grid

Mr Jan Bot (TU Delft)

05/03/2009, 16:00

Experiences from application porting and deployment

Oral

Cancer research has shown that cancer does not arise from a single mutation but requires multiple mutations to occur. Finding out which mutations occur together is a promising branch of biological research. In order to perform this research a large amount of data is needed to reach statistical significance. A pilot job framework on the Dutch Life Science Grid was used to acquire very promising results.

60. Integromics: a grid-enabled platform for integration of advanced bioinformatics tools and data

Dr Luca Corradi (university of genoa)

05/03/2009, 16:20

End-user environments and portal technologies

Oral

According to the “Integromics” philosophy, coined by John Weinstein (National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, USA), we propose an integromic framework for data and tools integration issues associated with genomic research. Over the past years, massive, complex and heterogeneous amount of biological data have been generated in laboratories, including gene sequences, information on gene...

76. GRISSOM a web based Grid portal and repository for interpretation and storage of DNA microarray experiments

Dr Aristotelis Chatziioannou (National Hellenic Research Foundation,IBRB)

05/03/2009, 16:40

End-user environments and portal technologies

Oral

GRISSOM (GRids for In Silico Systems biOlogy and Medicine) enables the exploitation of GRID resources for microarray biological data parallel processing and provides experts with a complete web-based solution for managing, searching and disseminating biological knowledge in the context of gene expression patterns on a genomic scale. The platform is developed and deployed using open source...

172. Large scale bioinformatics experiment about System Biology

Dr Christophe Blanchet (CNRS IBCP)

05/03/2009, 17:00

Experiences from application porting and deployment

Oral

Predicting the effect of perturbations of complex biological systems is key to being able to solve important problems, in particular in the case of human diseases. It is highly likely, that such predictions will have to be based on computer models that represent all relevant components of the networks involved as well as their interactions in sufficient detail and accuracy.