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CPSE-Bio: A Cloud-Based Biological Problem Solving Environment

XIE Jiang, WANG Min-chao, YI Rong-gui, XIA Shang-yun, ZHANG Wu   

  1. School of Compute Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2012-11-29 Online:2013-02-28 Published:2013-02-28

Abstract: Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary subject which combines biology with computer science to address biological problems. The purpose of problem solving environment (PSE) is to solve scientific problems and provide an effective platform for researchers. As the scale of biological data is huge and data increase rapidly with the development of the biology technology, it is hard for the traditional PSE based on a sequential computer system to meet the processing emand. This paper reviews the work of the Bioinformatics Group at the School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University. PSE with the cloud technology and implement a bioinformatics PSE named CPSE-Bio, based on cloud computing are combined. The performances of two main modules in the CPSEBio, multi-database retrieval technology (MDRT) and protein mining (PM), are evaluated and analyzed.

Key words: bioinformatics, cloud computing, problem solving environment (PSE)

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