Proposing a roadmap for HealthGrids

With the regular progress of technology and infrastructures, a growing number of grid applications are developed and deployed for life science and medical research. At the last HealthGrid conference in April 2005 in Oxford, many groups described successful usage of grids for compute intensive calcul...

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Published inStudies in health technology and informatics Vol. 120; p. 319
Main Authors Breton, Vincent, Blanquer, Ignacio, Hernandez, Vicente, Legré, Yannick, Solomonidés, Tony
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 2006
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Database Management Systems
Databases as Topic - organization & administration
Europe
Medical Informatics
Europe
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Summary:With the regular progress of technology and infrastructures, a growing number of grid applications are developed and deployed for life science and medical research. At the last HealthGrid conference in April 2005 in Oxford, many groups described successful usage of grids for compute intensive calculations. Very large scale deployment of a biomedical application in the area of drug discovery has been achieved on EGEE during 2005. On the other hand, beside a few pioneers, very few data grids have been deployed so far and knowledge grids are still at a conceptual level. This situation is expected to evolve quickly as many projects are focussed on developing data management services and knowledge management tools relevant to biomedical sciences. At this stage, it is important to identify the potential bottlenecks and to define a roadmap for the wide adoption of grids for healthcare. This article presents an analysis of the present adoption of grids for biomedical sciences and healthcare in Europe: it identifies bottlenecks and proposes actions that will be further assessed within the framework of the SHARE European project dedicated to the definition of a roadmap for HealthGrids.
ISSN:0926-9630