More specifically the BioinfoGRID project will make research in the fields of Genomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics and applications in Molecular Dynamics much easier, reducing data calculation times thanks to the distribution of the calculation at any one time on thousands of computers across Europe and the world.
Furthermore it will provide the possibility of accessing many different databases and hundreds of applications belonging to thousands of European users by exploiting the potential of the Grid infrastructure created with the EGEE European project and coordinated by CERN in Geneva.
The BioinfoGRID project foresees an investment of over one million euros funded through the European Commission's "Research Infrastructures" budget. Grid networking promises to be a very important step forward in the Information Technology field. Grid technology will make a global network made up of hundreds of thousands of interconnected computers possible, allowing the shared use of calculating power, data storage and structured compression of data. This goes beyond the simple communication between computers and aims instead to transform the global network of computers into a vast joint computational resource.
Grid technology is a very important step forward from the Web, that simply allows the sharing of information over the internet. The massive potential of Grid technology will be indispensable when dealing with both the complexity of models and the enormous quantity of data, for example, in searching the human genome or when carry out simulations of molecular dynamics for the study of new drugs.
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