myGrid: personalised bioinformatics on the information grid.
BACKGROUND
The (my)Grid project aims to exploit Grid technology, with an emphasis on the Information Grid, and provide middleware layers that make it appropriate for the needs of bioinformatics. (my)Grid is building high level services for data and application integration such as resource discovery, workflow enactment and distributed query processing. Additional services are provided to support the scientific method and best practice found at the bench but often neglected at the workstation, notably provenance management, change notification and personalisation.


RESULTS
We give an overview of these services and their metadata. In particular, semantically rich metadata expressed using ontologies necessary to discover, select and compose services into dynamic workflows.
Stevens
Robert D
RD
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK, M13 9PL.
Robinson
Alan J
AJ
Goble
Carole A
CA
D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003199:Computer Systems; D003205:Computing Methodologies; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D033181:Information Dissemination; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D009862:Online Systems; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface