Using grid infrastructure for the promotion of biomedical knowledge mining

Abstract

Transcriptomic technologies (DNA microarrays, Next generation sequencers) represent a major innovation in biomedical research contributing an unprecedented wealth of data regarding genome-wide inspection of an organism. GRISSOM web application is a microarray analysis environment, exploiting Grid technologies. In this work we present how the novel functionalities it incorporates through the use of various web services, gradually transform it to a generic paradigm for versatile biological computing, semantic mining and knowledge discovery. © 2010 International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.