Grid services for genomic research. Polish national grid perspective

In this paper we present grid services for the biomolecular community offered by the Polish National Grid (Polish NGI). This work is motivated by the fact that in many application areas including life sciences there is increasing demand for disk space and computer power to store and process data. Emerging technologies such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) put additional stress on this demand. The amount of data which biologists have to handle is usually too big to be stored and processed in the laboratory using desktop or even more powerful single computers. The ultimate solution is grid technology offering seamless access to the distributed storage and computational resources.