Bioinformatics Application Integration in GeneGrid

GeneGrid provides a platform for scientists, especially biologists, to access their collective skills, experiences and results in a secure, reliable and scalable manner through the creation of a ‘Virtual Bioinformatics Laboratory’. It enables the seamless integration of a myriad of heterogeneous applications and datasets that span multiple administrative domains and locations across the globe, and present these to the scientist through a simple user-friendly interface. This paper presents the improvements and modifications made to the GeneGrid Application Manager (GAM) since its last release. GAM is the Globus Toolkit 3 based grid service responsible for the integration of Bioinformatics applications and other accessory programs present on heterogeneous resources, within the GeneGrid environment. A major thrust was given to make its functionality as extensible as possible by making it highly generic. This has helped in the easy and seamless integration of new applications that are heterogeneous in their requirements and outputs, making it possible to perform a number of real biological workflows.

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