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Homogenizing Access to Highly Time-Consuming Biomedical Applications through a Web-Based Interface

Homogenizing Access to Highly Time-Consuming Biomedical Applications through a Web-Based Interface

  • Luigi Grasso30,
  • Nuria Medina-Medina30,
  • Rosana Montes-Soldado30 &
  • …
  • María M. Abad-Grau30 
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Abstract

The exponential increment in the production of biomedical data is forcing a higher level of automatization to analyze it. Therefore, biomedical researchers have to entrust bioinformaticians to develop software able to process a huge amount of data on high performance unix-based servers. However, most of the software is developed with a very basic, text-based, user interface, usually because of a lack of time. In addition the applications are developed as independent tools yielding to a set of specific software tools with very different ways of use. This implies that final users continuously need developer support. Even worse, in many situations only developers themselves are able to run the software every time is required. In this contribution we present a Web-based user interface that homogenizes the way users interact with the applications installed in a server. This way, authorized users can add their applications to the Web site at a very low cost. Therefore, researchers with no special computational skills will perform analysis by themselves, gaining independence to run applications whenever they want at the cost of a very little effort. The application is portable to any unix-like system with a php+mysql server.

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  • High performance biomedical applications
  • Web-based user interface
  • AJAX

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  1. Dept. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos - CITIC, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

    Luigi Grasso, Nuria Medina-Medina, Rosana Montes-Soldado & María M. Abad-Grau

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  1. Scilytics, Koellnerhofgasse 3/15A, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Michael Alexander

  2. ICAR-CNR, Via P. Castellino, 111, 80131, Napoli, Italy

    Pasqua D’Ambra

  3. University of Amsterdam, 1090, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Adam Belloum

  4. Innovative Computing Laboratory, The University of Tennessee, US

    George Bosilca

  5. Department of Experimental Medicine and Clinic, University Magna Græcia, 88100, Catanzaro, Italy

    Mario Cannataro

  6. Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, Italy

    Marco Danelutto

  7. Second University of Naples, Italy

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  8. TUMünchen,, Boltzmannstr. 3, ,, 85748, Garching, Germany

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  9. Equipe Runtime, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, 33405, Talence Cedex, France

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  10. Equipe HIEPACS, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, 33405, Talence Cedex, France

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  11. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 37831-6164, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

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  12. Department of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Nordbergstr. 15/3C, 1090, Vienna, Austria

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  13. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 37831, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

    Geoffroy Vallée

  14. Technische Universität München, Germany

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Grasso, L., Medina-Medina, N., Montes-Soldado, R., Abad-Grau, M.M. (2012). Homogenizing Access to Highly Time-Consuming Biomedical Applications through a Web-Based Interface. In: Alexander, M., et al. Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops. Euro-Par 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29740-3_5

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