Marcelina Borcz

In this paper, we present method to process medical images on the grid in the seamless manner. The only software required on the client side is a web browser which is used to upload files, submit analysis and present results. The proposed solution is easy to deploy and use. It meets user requirements to focus on medical diagnosis rather than techni...

The UNICORE Portal is a new offering in the UNICORE client side tools portfolio. In this paper we are evaluating the current architecture of the Portal and its connection to the corre- sponding UNICORE middleware components from the perspective of domain-specific inter- faces integration. The paper discusses the need for a low-level Portal API, whi...

Abstract Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) heteroplasmy has been widely described from clinical, evolutionary and analytical points of view. Historically, the majority of studies have been based on Sanger sequencing. However, next-generation sequencing technologies are now being used for heteroplasmy analysis. Ultra-deep sequencing approaches provide incre...

In this paper we present grid services for the biomolecular community offered by the Polish National Grid (Polish NGI). This work is motivated by the fact that in many application areas including life sciences there is increasing demand for disk space and computer power to store and process data. Emerging technologies such as Next Generation Sequen...

The Polish Grid computing infrastructure was established during the PL-Grid project (2009–2012). The main purpose of this Project was to provide the Polish scientists with an IT basic platform, allowing them to conduct interdisciplinary research on a national scale, and giving them transparent access to international grid resources via internationa...

Storage is similarly important as compute resources. Moreover, recent developments in cloud technology allow users to access distributed storage in an easy and efficient way. The option is especially important for the processing of biomolecular and genetic data which is necessary for diagnostics and research. Recently we have introduced a UNICORE b...

PL-Grid [2] is a grid project involving all Polish supercomputer centers. It aims to provide the scientific community with a large computational power based on computer clusters connected with the grid middleware such as gLite and UNICORE. Within the PL-Grid users have uniform access to all supercomputer centers and specialized application software...

The huge amount of the biological and biomedical data increases demand for significant disk space and computer power to store and process them. From its beginning the Grid has been considered as possibility to provide such resources for the life sciences community. In this paper authors focus on the UNICORE system which enables scientists to access...

The constant growth of the amount of the biological and biomedical data forces scientists to use infrastructures which provide significant computer power, disk space and access to applications, sometimes very specific. The processing of the amount of data generated with the high throughput experimental equipments s not straightforward. The typical...

This chapter provides an overview of the training facilities in the PL-Grid project. It is well known that procedures necessary to obtain certificates and then install software or get access to the User Interfaces are complicated and due to security reasons cannot be simplified. For these purposes we have crated extended training facilities which a...

This chapter provides a brief overview of the UNICORE grid middleware and its utilization in the large Distributed Computing Infrastructure. UNICORE framework, in its recent version implements key grid standards and specifications. The system architecture and capabilities, such as security, workflow and data management are described. The installati...

The article presents the GridBean for running local jobs using the UNICORE Rich Client. This solution addresses the need to execute applications which are not available on the Grid such as interactive graphical tools. In the traditional approach, to run such a program in a multi-stage experiment the user has to design two separate workflows. Runnin...

Nowadays the role of e-Science is important, especially in the area of life sciences. Experiments and their analysis are carried out in collaboration of many scientific groups from institutes located all over the world. Moreover, they work with immense amount of data which usually needs to be processed statistically. Therefore, the need for computi...

Large-scale scientific research often relies on the collaborative use of Grid and e-Science infrastructures that provide computational or storage related resources. One of the ideas of these modern infrastructures is to facilitate the routine interaction of scientists and their workflows with advanced problem solving tools and computational resourc...

Sequence analysis is one of the most fundamental tasks in molecular biology. Because of the increasing number of sequences we still need more computing power. One of the solutions are grid environments, which make use of computing centers. In this paper we present plug-in which enables the use of BLAST software for sequence analysis within Grid env...