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Project Title: |
The Development of an Information Repository for Microbial Genome
Comparisons using a Parallel Object Based Architecture (MicroBase) |
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Department/University |
School of Computing Science,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
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Investigators |
Dr. Anil Wipat |
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Project Description |
The overall aim of the proposed work is to develop a Grid-enabled
information repository that will support microbial genome
comparisons for use by the bioinformatics community and that will
serve as a test-bed bioinformatics application for a new scalable,
parallel computing architecture. The specific objectives by which we
hope to achieve the above aim are:
To develop an object-oriented information model that wil store
the combined results of pair-wise microbial genome alignments and
protein sequence comparisons generated by parallelised algorithms.
To establish a novel computing architecture that will support
parallel computations on the very large datasets that result; and
To combine objectives (1) and (2) to produce and evaluate a
system that will allow custom microbial genome comparison queries to
be assembled remotely by a user and sent in the form of an agent
over the Internet or Grid for execution in a high performance
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Contact Information |
Dr. Anil Wipat |
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