Using Grid Infrastructure for the Promotion of Biomedical Knowledge Mining

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.

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