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The advantages of web applications have already got attention in major physical research facilities like Canadian Light Source (CLS). It is the accessability of web applications that makes them preferred to native desktop application in some experimental control scenarios. This short paper presents two web applications that were mainly developed at CLS — Science Studio for remote access and collaboration...
Although citizen science projects can engage a very large number of volunteers to collect volumes of data, they are susceptible to issues with data quality. Our experience with eBird, which is a broad-scale citizen science project to collect bird observations, has shown that a massive effort by volunteer experts is needed to screen data, identify outliers and flag them in the database. The increasing...
Social collaboration scenarios, such as sharing resources between friends, are becoming increasingly prevalent in recent years. An example of this new paradigm is Social Cloud Computing, which aims at leveraging existing digital relationships within social networks for the exchange of resources among users and user communities. Due to their complexity, such platforms and systems have to be carefully...
The last two decades have seen an exceptional increase of the available networking, computing and storage resources. Scientific research communities have exploited these enhanced capabilities developing large scale collaborations, supported by distributed infrastructures. In order to enable usage of such infrastructures, several middleware solutions have been created. However such solutions, having...
This paper presents Virtual Simulation Objects (VSO) concept which forms theoretical basis for building tools and framework that is developed for system-level simulations using existing software modules available within cyber-infrastructure. Presented concept is implemented by the software tool for building composite solutions using VSO-based GUI and running them using CLAVIRE simulation environment.
Gene synthesis is a key step to convert digitally predicted proteins to functional proteins. However, it is a relatively expensive and labor-intensive process. About 30–50% of the synthesized proteins are not soluble, thereby further reduces the efficacy of gene synthesis as a method for protein function characterization. Solubility prediction from primary protein sequences holds the promise to dramatically...
We introduce a web-based system for management of Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) simulations. This system provides an interface for users, on a web-browser, to have an intuitive, user-friendly means of dispatching and controlling long-running simulations. CFD presents a challenge to its users due to the complexity of its internal mathematics, the high computational demands of its simulations and...
Illnesses caused by parasitic protozoan are a research priority. A representative group of these illnesses is the commonly known as Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD). NTD specially attack low socioeconomic population around the world and new anti-protozoan inhibitors are needed and several drug discovery projects focus on researching new drug targets. Pharmacophylogenomics is a novel bioinformatics...
Molecular modeling is a field that traditionally has large computational costs. Until recently, most simulation techniques relied on long trajectories, which inherently have poor scalability. A new class of methods is proposed that requires only a large number of short calculations, and for which minimal communication between computer nodes is required. We considered one of the more accurate variants...
MapReduce has since its inception been steadily gaining ground in various scientific disciplines ranging from space exploration to protein folding. The model poses a challenge for a wide range of current and legacy scientific applications for addressing their “Big Data” challenges. For example: MapRe-duce's best known implementation, Apache Hadoop, only offers native support for Java applications...
The use of information technology in research and practice leads to increased degree of automation of tasks and makes scientific experiments more efficient in terms of cost, speed, accuracy, and flexibility. Scientific workflows have proven useful for the automation of scientific computations. However, not all tasks of an experiment can be automated. Some decisions still need to be made by human users,...
While workflow technology has gained momentum in the last decade as a means for specifying and enacting computational experiments in modern science, reusing and repurposing existing workflows to build new scientific experiments is still a daunting task. This is partly due to the difficulty that scientists experience when attempting to understand existing workflows, which contain several data preparation...
Bioresource utilization represents an important interdisciplinary research that integrates academic and industrial expertise across diverse scientific domains, including physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. The present paper describes a cyber-infrastructure being created at the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE) to assist scientists working on the field. One key...
Research is an incremental process that both generates and consumes diverse artifacts over its lifetime. A typical research lifecycle may involve creating experimental or observational data using multiple facilities or instruments; refining raw data into derived data to test hypotheses; publishing and presenting the findings in various formats. Each stage of this process commonly involves support...
The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) project (www.aurin.org.au) is tasked with developing an e-Infrastructure to support urban and built environment research across Australia. As identified in [1], this e-Infrastructure must provide seamless access to highly distributed and heterogeneous data sets from multiple organisations with accompanying analytical and visualization capabilities...
Data protection is a challenge when outsourcing medical analysis, especially if one is dealing with patient related data. While securing transfer channels is possible using encryption mechanisms, protecting the data during analyses is difficult as it usually involves processing steps on the plain data. A common use case in bioinformatics is when a scientist searches for a biological sequence of amino...
Provenance of digital scientific data is an important piece of the metadata of a data object. It can however grow voluminous quickly because the granularity level of capture can be high. It can also be quite feature rich. We propose a representation of the provenance data based on logical time that reduces the feature space. Creating time and frequency domain representations of the provenance, we...
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