Proteus, a Grid based Problem Solving Environment for Bioinformatics: Architecture and Experiments

Bioinformatics can be considered as a bridge between life science and computer science. Biology requires high and large computing power to performance biological applications and to access huge number of distributed and (often) heterogeneous databases. Computer scientists and database communities have expertises in high performance algorithms computation and in data management. Considering bioinformatics requirements, in this paper we present PROTEUS , a Grid-based Problem Solving Environment for bioinformatics applications. PROTEUS uses ontology to enhance composition of bioinformatics applications. Architecture and preliminary experimental results are reported.