A survey of life sciences applications on the grid

New Generation Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-125

  Krishnan, Arun ^a  

^a BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Distributed applications; Grid computing; Life sciences

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DNA SEQUENCES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURVEYS;

BIOINFORMATICS; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; GRID COMPUTING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LIFE SCIENCES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642332170     PISSN: 02883635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03040950     Document Type: Article

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