Web and grid technologies in bioinformatics, computational and systems biology: A review

Current Bioinformatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-31

  Shah, Azhar A ^a   Barthel, Daniel ^a   Lukasiak, Piotr ^b,c   Blazewicz, Jacek ^b,c   Krasnogor, Natalio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Grid computing; In silico experiments; Middleware; Semantic web; Web agents; Web services

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC; GLOBAL WARMING; GRID COMPUTING; METADATA; NETWORK SECURITY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GRID TECHNOLOGIES; IN SILICO EXPERIMENT; IN-SILICO; SEMANTIC-WEB; SILICO EXPERIMENTS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; WEB AGENTS; WEB TECHNOLOGIES; WEBS SERVICES;

MIDDLEWARE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 38949183929     PISSN: 15748936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157489308783329850     Document Type: Review

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