Hi Don I have been working with Ivan Judson on developing the Life Sciences Gateway for handling some of these issues, particularly blast and interproscan. Ivan has developed a web interface, and I have developed a set of perl modules for handling interfacing with the gateway. Rob On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:18 AM, don gilbert wrote: > > Dear bio-cluster users, > > I'm working on general methods to use Grid systems, esp. US TeraGrid > as a replacement for maintaining your own local clusters in genome > analyses. > The general idea is to create a set of shared protocols and middleware > such that many groups can use shared grid systems for genome analyses, > rather than go thru the maintenance hassles of setting up and > maintaining > each one's own. The Generic Model Organism Database project > (www.gmod.org) > will be a repository for this shared work, and we hope to have common > bioinformatics tools and data sets installed for genome work at > TeraGrid sites > E.g. like NC BioPortal, http://www.ncbiogrid.org/, maybe in > collaboration with them -- > their work is now mostly provides a web interface via Pise-Emboss- > etc with bio-datasets > at TeraGrid sites. For genome informatics, we expect to use > mostly command-line > type access. > > See here for genome assembly and analyses on TeraGrid: > http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/biogrid/genome-on-teragrid-poster.html > http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/biogrid/teragrid-genomics06-proposal.pdf > > Anyone interested in using such methods, please feel free to > contact me. > > - Don Gilbert > > -- d.gilbert--bioinformatics--indiana-u--bloomington-in-47405 > -- gilbertd at indiana.edu -- http://marmot.bio.indiana.edu/ > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >