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VIROLAB: GridwiseTech joins the fight against HIV
The virtual lab will be a fundamental tool enabling scientists to share and distribute information to help acquire data bringing the medical world a few steps closer to finding cures for diseases such as HIV/Aids. The Virtual Laboratory endorses tools for statistical analysis, visualization, modeling and simulation, to prognosticate the temporal virological and immunological response of viruses with complex mutation patterns to drug therapy. Only by means of a grid based service, which we are developing for Virolab, is the integration of biomedical information, patients, and literature made possible on a vast scale. The present undertaking provides an exclusive model which can be adopted in research for many other diseases where genetic information will be significant and highly beneficial in the future. Contact us to hear more. |
Virolab is one of the most revolutionary projects GridwiseTech have
undertaken to work on this year. It's a Grid-based Virtual Laboratory
for Decision Support in Viral Disease Treatment that benefits medical
knowledge discovery and decision support for, e.g., HIV resistance. GridwiseTech joined this venture together with the following bodies from the Netherlands, Poland and Germany: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Institute Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, Institute of computer Science AGH,
Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet, Virology Education B.V, and Universiteit
Stuttgart. GridwiseTech is playing a strategic role in the project as
it is solely responsible for designing and building the Grid infrastructure
for Virolab.
The official starting date of the project is 1 March, 2006.