Welcome to the Swiss Bio Grid Website

Introduction

The Swiss Bio Grid is an initiative of national scope that will support large-scale computational applications in bioinformatics, biosimulation, chemoinformatics and bio-medical sciences by utilizing distributed high-performance computing, high speed networks, massive data collections and archives, as well as the necessary software tools and data integration capabilities. The Swiss Bio Grid goal is to establish a value added collaborative platform focused on solving key scientific challenges of life science.

Swiss Bio Grid Proof of Concept:
Compute grid based Virtual Screening of Dengue Virus Target Proteins

The Proof of Concept has 3 objectives:

Science: To achieve a set of innovative and valuable results that exceed what the individual institutions could have produced alone.

Infrastructure: To establish the test bed that will evolve towards a dynamic IT infrastructure allowing to use resources across institutions and disciplines, delivering services for compute intensive applications and data sharing.

Feasibility: To demonstrate that it is possible to address complex and demanding scientific questions by sharing existing infrastructure in Switzerland without impacting the normal use of these resources.
The necessary computational and human resources for the test bed for the PoC study will be provided by the partners out of their individual resources.