The
Bioinformatics and DAIT Project is a one year study funded by the
BBSRC.
The project is a collaboration between the Computer Science Department, Cardiff
University and the Information and Science Engineering Group, CCLRC.
Project
Summary
Due
to the timing of the BBSRC funded pilot projects little use has been made
in them of the OGSA-DAI software. This
software is being developed by the UK eScience community as a major
contribution to the world eScience Grid initiative.
It is designed to enable access in Grid environments to
heterogeneous databases managed by DBMS based on SQL, XML or other
approaches, and would appear to be a natural choice for the bioinformatics
community for their data management in the future.
In this research we will investigate how the present approaches to
database access could be replaced by an approach based on OGSA-DAI, using
two of the current BBSRC pilot projects as exemplars.
The technical benefits of doing this will be critically evaluated
and a report prepared on the findings of the project.
It is also planned to prepare workshop material and run a workshop
for the bioinformatics community to inform them of this software's
potential.
Project
Goals
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Investigate
how OGSA-DAI could be used in bioinformatics GRIDS
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Evaluate
the suitability of that software in its present form
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Develop
alternative data access and management strategies based on OGSA-DAI for two
exemplar projects - BDWorld, e-Protein.
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Compare
the OGSA-DAI approach to GRID DAI against those currently employed in the exemplar
projects
Develop
appropriate metrics to evaluate the efficacy of the OGSA-DAI-based method Produce
an evaluation report and relevant publications/presentations to disseminate the
research findings and insights
gained through the exercise to the bioinformatics and eScience communities -
Provide
feedbacks to the DAIT Team to assist in the development of the OGSA-DAI
product
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Deliver
a workshop for the bioinformatics community to disseminate insights gained
on the application of OGSA-DAI to bioinformatics eResearch
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you have any comments on the project, please contact
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