| IWPLS’09 - International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences | |
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United Kingdom - Edinburgh |
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| Hosted by: | e-Science Institute |
| Venue: | e-Science Institute |
| Dates: | Sep 14, 2009 through Sep 15, 2009 |
| Event Registration: | 2009-06-25 through 2009-09-07 |
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Description |
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| IWPLS’09 will bring together scientists of the field of life sciences, bioinformaticians and computer scientists. The aim is to exchange experience, formulate ideas and introduce up-to-date technological advances in molecular and systems biology in the context of portals. New technologies and experimental methods in the field of life sciences have enabled researchers to create huge amounts of data in extremely short times. In turn, analysing this data demands a rise of compute power, storage, and transmission. An enormous number of complex and sophisticated algorithms and tools have been developed to aid research. The demand for compute power and storage is met with a rise in provision of infrastructure and High-Performance Computing facilities and has resulted in the popularity of novel utility computing infrastructures, such as grid and cloud computing. Despite the increasing available resources, the broad uptake of these facilities and infrastructures is not following the same pace. The main reasons for this lie in the complexity of the human-computer interface to these computing infrastructures. Partly these infrastructures are only accessible and popular in local or specific communities. An approach to offer easy and intuitive access to computing infrastructures irrespective of their location is a portal. It is essentially a website specific for a community that shares resources, e.g., scientific data, scientific tools and underlying computing infrastructure. Through a portal, essentially a thin-client graphical interface, it is much easier to give a scientific community access to an underlying infrastructure as one can hide all the complexities of the technology involved. |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1000/ |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
| Contact Person: | Sandra Gesing ([javascript protected email address]) |
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