First International Workshop
on Portals for Life Sciences
Sandra Gesing
sandra.gesing@uni-tuebingen.de
14.09.2009
Organisation
• Talks and lightning talks
• Proceedings
• USB flash drives
• Pictures
• Lunch and coffee on the first floor
• Social event at Malmaison
- Taxis leave at 6:15 pm in front of the
e-Science Institute
- Whisky tasting at 7 pm
- Dinner at 8 pm
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Life Sciences
• Biology, chemistry, medicine, etc.
• Focus on topics diverse to computer science
• Scientists with different computational
background
• Usage of computational tools and applications
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Portals
• Framework for integrating information and
applications
• Single point of entry
• Provide each user with a repository of
personal information
• Possibility to customize views and tools
• No installation of software on the end-user
side
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Portals
Advantages
• No software roll outs or software updates
• Easy access from everywhere
• No firewall issues
• Runs on all platforms
Disadvantages
• Development is tricky when compared to Java
applications
• Technology rather immature
• Depends on the portal server to be available
• No access to local data
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Aspects
• Users
• Tools and applications
• Security
Internet
• Authentication
• Authorisation
• Data access
Cloud
• Monitoring
• Workflows
• Service discovery
Grid
• Ontologies
• Grid and Cloud Computing
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Types of Portals
• Collection of links
• Grid portals, e.g. GridSphere
• Workflow-enabled portals, e.g. PGrade
• Semantic portals, e.g. BioSphere
• Data portals, e.g. MOLGENIS
• Specialized Portals, e.g. Galaxy, myExperiment
•…
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Thank you for
your attention.
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