A semantic Grid Infrastructure Enabling Integrated Access and Knowledge Discovery from Multilevel Data in Ppost-Genomic Clinical Trials

This paper reports on original results of the ACGT integrated project focusing on the design and development of a European Biomedical Grid infrastructure in support of multicentric, post genomic clinical trials on Cancer. The paper provides a presentation of the needs of users involved in post-genomic CTs, and presents such needs in the form of scenarios which drive the requirements engineering phase of the project. Subsequently, the initial architecture specified by the project is presented and its services are classified and discussed. The Master Ontology on Cancer, been developed by the project, is presented and our approach to develop the required metadata registries, which provide semantically rich information about available data and computational services, is provided. Finally, a short discussion of the work lying ahead is included.