GRIMD: distributed computing for chemists and biologists.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Biologists and chemists are facing problems of high computational complexity that require the use of several computers organized in clusters or in specialized grids. Examples of such problems can be found in molecular dynamics (MD), in silico screening, and genome analysis. Grid Computing and Cloud Computing are becoming prevalent mainly because of their competitive performance/cost ratio. Regrettably, the diffusion of Grid Computing is strongly limited because two main limitations: it is confined to scientists with strong Computer Science background and the analyses of the large amount of data produced can be cumbersome it. We have developed a package named GRIMD to provide an easy and flexible implementation of distributed computing for the Bioinformatics community. GR

SUBMITTER: Piotto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3916819 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature