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Although grid computing offers great potential for executing large-scale bioinformatics applications, practical deployment is constrained by legacy interfaces. Most widely deployed bioinformatics were designed long before grid computing arose, and thus are created, tested, and validated in the familiar environment of a workstation. Most perform simple local I/O and have no facility for interfacing...