Building Science Gateways with EnginFrame: a Life Science example
Livia Torterolo, Ivan Porro, Marco Fato, Maurizio Melato, Antonio Calanducci, R. Barbera · CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa) · 2009
Given their ability to hide the complexities of the underlying computational environment, Science gateways, Grid portals and Web Service interfaces are crucial in enhancing user adoption of e-Infrastructures. Much effort has been invested in this field to create virtual environments that allow researchers to focus on their research carried out within the Virtual Organisations they belong to. The approach presented in the paper follows the Teragrid vision, according to which gateways enable entire communities of users associated with a common scientific goal to use the resources of a cyberinfrastructure through a common interface. The paper describes the EnginFrame framework developed to easily build Science Gateway prototypes and presents a use case from the Life Sciences domain.