P-found: grid-enabling distributed repositories of protein folding and unfolding simulations for data mining

Swain, M., Silva, C. G., Loureiro-Ferreira, N., Ostropytskyy, V., Brito, J., Riche, O., Stahl, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4860-0203, Dubitzky, W. and Brito, R. M. M. (2010) P-found: grid-enabling distributed repositories of protein folding and unfolding simulations for data mining. Future Generation Computer Systems, 26 (3). pp. 424-433. ISSN 0167-739X doi: 10.1016/j.future.2009.08.008

Abstract/Summary

The P-found protein folding and unfolding simulation repository is designed to allow scientists to perform data mining and other analyses across large, distributed simulation data sets. There are two storage components in P-found: a primary repository of simulation data that is used to populate the second component, and a data warehouse that contains important molecular properties. These properties may be used for data mining studies. Here we demonstrate how grid technologies can support multiple, distributed P-found installations. In particular, we look at two aspects: firstly, how grid data management technologies can be used to access the distributed data warehouses; and secondly, how the grid can be used to transfer analysis programs to the primary repositories — this is an important and challenging aspect of P-found, due to the large data volumes involved and the desire of scientists to maintain control of their own data. The grid technologies we are developing with the P-found system will allow new large data sets of protein folding simulations to be accessed and analysed in novel ways, with significant potential for enabling scientific discovery.

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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
Uncontrolled Keywords	Data mining; Distributed systems; Service-oriented architecture; Grid
Publisher	Elsevier
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