A Secure Web Application Providing Public Access to High-Performance Data Intensive Scientific Resources - ScalaBLAST Web Application

Conference · Sun May 04 04:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI ID:949130

Curtis, Darren S; Peterson, Elena S; Oehmen, Chris S

This work presents the ScalaBLAST Web Application (SWA), a web based application implemented using the PHP script language, MySQL DBMS, and Apache web server under a GNU/Linux platform. SWA is an application built as part of the Data Intensive Computer for Complex Biological Systems (DICCBS) project at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). SWA delivers accelerated throughput of bioinformatics analysis via high-performance computing through a convenient, easy-to-use web interface. This approach greatly enhances emerging fields of study in biology such as ontology-based homology, and multiple whole genome comparisons which, in the absence of a tool like SWA, require a heroic effort to overcome the computational bottleneck associated with genome analysis. The current version of SWA includes a user account management system, a web based user interface, and a backend process that generates the files necessary for the Internet scientific community to submit a ScalaBLAST parallel processing job on a dedicated cluster.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 949130
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-57895; KJ0101030
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
BIOLOGY
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ISOCHRONOUS CYCLOTRONS
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PARALLEL PROCESSING
Scalable
Grid Computing
Access Control
Web Application
Security
ScalaBLAST
Portable Batch System.