Authors:
Darren Curtis
;
Elena Peterson
and
Christopher Oehmen
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States
Keyword(s):
Scalable, Grid Computing, Access Control, Web Application, Security, ScalaBLAST, Portable Batch System.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Access Control
;
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Data Security
;
Distributed and Parallel Applications
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Grid Computing
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Internet Technology
;
System Integration
;
Technology Platforms
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Security and Privacy
Abstract:
This work presents the ScalaBLAST Web Application (SWA), a web based application implemented using the PHP script language, MySQL DBMS, and Apache web server under a GNU/Linux platform. SWA is an application built as part of the Data Intensive Computer for Complex Biological Systems (DICCBS) project at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). SWA delivers accelerated throughput of bioinformatics analysis via high-performance computing through a convenient, easy-to-use web interface. This approach greatly enhances emerging fields of study in biology such as ontology-based homology, and multiple whole genome comparisons which, in the absence of a tool like SWA, require a heroic effort to overcome the computational bottleneck associated with genome analysis. The current version of SWA includes a user account management system, a web based user interface, and a backend process that generates the files necessary for the Internet scientific community to submit a ScalaBLAST paralle
l processing job on a dedicated cluster.
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