myGrid: personalisedbioinformatics on the information grid

Abstract Motivation: The myGrid project aims to exploit Grid technology, with an emphasis on the Information Grid, and provide middleware layers that make it appropriate for the needs of bioinformatics. myGrid is building high level services for data and application integration such as resource discovery, workflow enactment and distributed query processing. Additional services are provided to support the scientific method and best practice found at the bench but often neglected at the workstation, notably provenance management, change notification and personalisation. Results: We give an overview of these services and their metadata. In particular, semantically rich metadata expressed using ontologies necessary to discover, select and compose services into dynamic workflows. Availability: Software is available on request from the authors and information from http://www.mygrid.org.uk Contact: carole@cs.man.ac.uk *To whom correspondence should be addressed.