Conveners
Going beyond grid to enable life science data analysis
- Afonso Duarte (ITQB-UNL)
- Fotis Psomopoulos (Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas)
Going beyond grid to enable life science data analysis
- Fotis Psomopoulos (Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas)
- Afonso Duarte (ITQB-UNL)
Going beyond grid to enable life science data analysis
- Fotis Psomopoulos (Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas)
- Afonso Duarte (ITQB-UNL)
Description
Grid and cloud computing are now a fundamental element in all analyses and experiments in Life Sciences. This is coming even more evident in the world of Big Data and the Horizon 2020 work programme. This workshop aims to bring together researchers active in Life Sciences from around Europe and facilitate the networking between them within the context of EGI. The first part of the workshop will motivate participants by including targeted talks from key infrastructures and projects within the Life Sciences community, such as ELIXIR. Furthermore, the participants will have a chance of introducing their experience and expertise in a round of flash presentations. Finally, the discussion phase will aim to provide clear proposals for possible collaborations and suggestions for future EGI actions.
Dr
Gergely Sipos
(EGI.EU)
20/05/2014, 11:01
The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) is a federation of over 340 resource centres, set up to provide computing services and resources to European researchers and their international collaborators. EGI is coordinated by EGI.eu, a not-for-profit foundation created to manage the infrastructure on behalf of its participants: National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) and European Intergovernmental...
Alexandre Bonvin
(eNMR/WeNMR (via Dutch NGI))
20/05/2014, 11:15
Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)
Sessions contributions
Structural biology is concerned with the determination of the three-dimensional structures of bio-macromolecules and their complexes. The field contributes to society by supporting a wide range of applications that include drug design, crop improvement, and engineering of enzymes of industrial significance. Its present challenges include the integration of data from various methods, gaining...
Jesus Marco de Lucas
(CSIC)
20/05/2014, 11:30
This presentation will show how the ESFRI LifeWatch is benefiting from the framework provided by EGI to setup services satisfying the researchers needs.
After introducing the LifeWatch initiative and in particular the details of its core-ICT, the talk will first show two examples demonstrating this interaction between LifeWatch and EGI.
Then a brief analysis of the services expected from...
Rob Quick
(Open Science Grid)
20/05/2014, 12:20
To assist the bioinformatic community in leveraging the national cyber-infrastructure, the National Center for Genomic Analysis Support (NCGAS) along with Indiana University's High Throughput Computing (HTC) group have engineered a method to use the Galaxy to submit BLAST jobs to the Open Science Grid (OSG). OSG is a collaboration of resource providers that utilize opportunistic cycles at more...
Dr
Rafael Jimenez
(Chief technology officer (CTO) ELIXIR Hub (EBI))
20/05/2014, 14:00
Christophe Blanchet
(IDB IBCP FR3302)
20/05/2014, 14:30
Improvements of experimental technologies force life science researchers to face a deluge of data that requires relevant tools and sufficient computing resources. To answer these new difficulties we created personalized bioinformatics cloud services that are predefined and turnkey appliances with common bioinformatics tools, workflows and gateways. Their size usually of gigabytes make them...
Dr
Tommi Nyrönen
(CSC, Head of ELIXIR Finland)
20/05/2014, 14:50
As Biomedical science data volumes grow, local computational resources to
satisfy need for their processing quickly become insufficient. In addition
to computing services and technical support, users need significant
storage capacities, and access to large reference data to reflect their
findings in the context of the current knowledge. The size of the datasets
in biomedical science like...
Dr
Manuel Corpas
(The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC))
20/05/2014, 15:10
Dr
Brane Leskosek
(Institute of Biomedical Informatics), Dr
Jan Jona Javoršek
(Institut "Jozef Stefan")
20/05/2014, 16:00
Tomas Kulhanek
(Charles University in Prague)
20/05/2014, 16:35
Success stories in using e-Infrastructures for research (Track Leaders: E. Katragkou, P. Castejon)
Sessions contributions
We developed a system to support modeling of physiological systems in the phase of calibrating model parameters and in the phase of simulating different scenarios. The loosely coupled part of the system is deployed in a remote distributed computational capacity. A significant speedup was shown in the case of the large complex physiological model computed in cloud computing infrastructure...
Dr
Afonso Duarte
(ITQB-UNL), Dr
Fotis Psomopoulos
(Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas)
20/05/2014, 17:05
