1. The Queen’s University of Belfast www.qub.ac.uk/escience The Queen’s University of Belfast GeneGrid and GridSphere Noel Kelly

2. www.qub.ac.uk/escience The Queen’s University of Belfast Commercial Partners Targets for Protein & Antibody discovery Cancer and Immunology Medical Research – Epilepsy Potential Products from Molecular Mining

3. www.qub.ac.uk/escience The Queen’s University of Belfast GeneGrid Architecture GeneGrid Application & Resource Registry GeneGrid Workflow Definition GeneGrid STRIP GeneGrid Environment GeneGrid Workflow Manager Service GeneGrid Portal EMBL Database SwissProt Database iGAP GAM Service SDSC BeSC EBI GDM Service TMHMM Blast GAM Service SignalP mpiBlast GAM Service SwissProt DB GDM Service EMBL DB GDM Service

4. www.qub.ac.uk/escience The Queen’s University of Belfast Sample Experiment BlastP SwissProt Query TMHMM SignalP Bl2Seq Blast Formatter Eliminator

5. www.qub.ac.uk/escience The Queen’s University of Belfast GridSphere in GeneGrid Insulation from the “Scary Grid” Server Side Deployment User Familiarity Quick to set up!!!

6. www.qub.ac.uk/escience The Queen’s University of Belfast GeneGrid Portlet Functionality Build new experiments (Wizard Style) Save and reuse Experiment Templates Common experiment templates Track Experiment Progress & Status View all input and result files

7. www.qub.ac.uk/escience The Queen’s University of Belfast Future Portal Plans Addition of new tasks Edit & Delete tasks Single Configuration Point Incorporate Grid Manager display Statistics Monitoring (?) Log Viewing (?)

8. www.qub.ac.uk/escience The Queen’s University of Belfast GeneGrid Contacts Noel Kelly – Software Engineer –n.kelly@qub.ac.uk Dr. Paul Donachy – Project Supervisor –p.donachy@qub.ac.uk P.V. Jithesh – Bioinformatician –p.jithesh@qub.ac.uk GeneGrid web site –www.qub.ac.uk/escience/projects.php