Jamie Cuticchia, L. Zaifman, S. Wallace
2003
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Abstract
A concerted effort within Ontario to fund genomics research in excess of $150 Million has resulted in the establishment of the first publicly accessible Application Service Provider (ASP) for bioinformatics. Unlike other sites for bioinformatics services, the Ontario Centre for Genomic Computing (OCGC) provides an environment for research scientists to utilize high-performance computing for both pre-compiled and user developed programs. The goals of its establishment are to (1) provide the “genomics” community of Ontario with the computational power and software to perform their research, and (2) drive the development of high-performance computing applications in the bioinformatics discipline. Though organizations such as SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics) have invested in the development of the parallel programs for bioinformatics, such as High-Throughput Blast (HTBlast), the availability and ease of installation of programs for bioinformatics that take advantage of parallel architecture are not presently optimal. Here we present the process by which core tools for bioinformatics have been deployed in an ASP model and the mechanism by which the OCGC promotes the development of similar toolsets.