1. 1 Brussels - 16/09/2002HKIS – IST 38153 Healthgrid Workshop Brussels – 20 th September 2002

2. 2 Brussels - 16/09/2002HKIS – IST 38153 HKIS – P38153 ISoft (F) – Coordinator Curie Institute (F) Ulm University (G) European Oncology Institute (I) Paris Sud – LRI (F)

3. 3 Brussels - 16/09/2002HKIS – IST 38153 Goal Improve understanding of underlying oncogenetic mechanisms Identify homogeneous groups of tumours Identify genes involved in tumour progression

4. 4 Brussels - 16/09/2002HKIS – IST 38153 Objectives Provide medical and biologist professionals –An integrated platform –Access to external information –Support of the whole life cycle of experimentation –End user oriented

5. 5 Brussels - 16/09/2002HKIS – IST 38153 Objectives Support the workflow –Methodologies of experimentation Support the dataflow –Intelligent processing –In real time –Very large volume –Heterogeneous data

6. 6 Brussels - 16/09/2002HKIS – IST 38153 Objectives Support the information flow –Bi-directional exchange –Through the web –Web databases access –Follow the standard Validated on a set of oncogenesis related scenarios –Various areas –Different laboratories –Different technologies

12. 12 Brussels - 16/09/2002HKIS – IST 38153 Grid requirements Huge amount of data Huge processing resources Questions –What to distribute ? –How to distribute ? At which level of programming How structuring is it ?