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4.4.1.3
Integration of Heterogeneous Bioinformatics Computing Tools
At present, many bioinformatics computing tools have been designed for
different application purposes. All of these tools are installed into the grid
hardware environment and are used through the Web interface easily and
widely. In the bioinformatics grid, objectives of integration of hetero-
geneous bioinformatics computing tools (IBCT) are as follows:
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Classii cation and installation of shared bioinformatics comput-
ing and research tools
Integration of bioinformatics database
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Pipeline running control of computing l ow
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Graphic user interface
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Billing system
4.4.2
Image Grid
The image grid is a grid image-processing platform based on the
ChinaGrid infrastructure, which is an integrated environment hiding
inner heterogeneous resources and dynamic information. It not only real-
izes cooperative characteristics, but also affords a secure and transparent
image-processing environment with correlative services [24,25]. The
remarkable characteristics of the image-processing platform are: appli-
cation development, runtime environment, and remote visualization.
The image-processing grid application development and runtime environ-
ment is based on Web service and grid service technology, in which image
processing toolkits or software are deployed as Web services or grid ser-
vices components. These services are usually deployed redundantly for
all kinds of reasons such as fault-tolerance, availability, and performance.
The concept of virtual services, which are the abstract of several physical
services, is introduced to implement common functions and interfaces.
Therefore during the development of image processing grid application,
users only care about the virtual services of image applications, which
then convert into different physical services running on the ChinaGrid
through the service-scheduling system.
Various image-processing functions are afforded and extended in the
image grid environment with much higher performance and QoS.
Currently, the following applications are integrated into the image grid as
pilot applications: reconstruction of digital virtual human body, image
processing of remote sensing, and medical image diagnoses.
The Virtual Human Project (VHP) is the creation of complete, anatomi-
cally detailed, three-dimensional representations of normal male and
female human bodies. The long-term goal of VHP is to describe perfectly
the conformations and functions of gene, protein, cell, and organ so as to
achieve the whole accurate simulation of body information.
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