InSilicoLab: A User Workspace Implementing E-science Principles
Joanna Kocot, Tomasz Szepieniec, Mariusz Sterzel, Daniel Harężlak, Klemens Noga · 2012
E-science is a powerful instrument of contemporary research.Among its principles, the collaboration between globally dispersed groups of scientists is usually pointed as most important.Typically, e-science involves also using large-scale computing resources and large data collections.InSilicoLab is an application portal, that supports these aspects of research, by facilitating the access to computational software deployed on grids and the management of data and processes involved in such scientific computations.To meet the researchers' needs, the portal provides mechanisms to track the processes that lead to obtaining valuable data, as well as for sharing these data and processes with fellow scientists enabling their collaborative work.The record of a computation process may be used to repeat it, using different input parameters -which is a simple, yet, powerful approach towards workflow execution.