The aim of this Bioinformatics and E-Science funded project is to create an informatics platform for proteomics using Grid-based technologies, and to use this to address specific biological problems. To this end the project will construct an In Silico Proteome Integrated Data Environment Resource (ISPIDER) as a proteome Grid.
The project aims to develop tools, standards and infrastructure that will integrate proteomic data to enable novel queries and analyses to be performed. The infrastructure will use existing technologies developed by other research projects. These include the AutoMed data integration toolkit and Grid middleware developed for the OGSA-DAI and the myGrid projects, such as the OGSA-DQP distributed query processor and the Taverna workflow environment.
ISPIDER is a pilot data integration project, involving 3 major centres of bioinformatics innovation in the UK (Manchester, UCL/Birkbeck, EBI), that will foster greater links and co-operation in UK bioinformatics, and will lead to improved data standards, data integration and associated tools that will benefit the wider biological community.