Background: There is an increasing demand to assemble and align large-scale biological sequence data sets. The commonly used multiple sequence alignment programs are still limited...
The medical community is producing and manipulating a tremendous volume of digital data for which computerized archiving, processing and analysis is needed. Grid infrastructures ar...
Despite recent developments in higher-level middleware for the Grid supporting high level of ease-of-programming, hurdles for widespread adoption of Grids remain high, due to (1) ...
Grid systems have a reputation for being difficult to build and use. We describe how the ease of use of the Styx Grid Services (SGS) software can be combined with the security and...
With the advent of web services standards and a serviceoriented Grid architecture, it is foreseeable that competing as well as complimenting computational services will proliferat...