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Presentation

Bigre

This project aims to design a distributed architecture of brokers deployed on the internet in order to federate bioinformatics resources (databases for example) and to propose thoses services as a unique interface to several profiles of users (researchers, doctors, ...).

Objectives

The objectives of the project are:

  1. Produce an applicative middleware in order to federate distributed resources (bioinformatic data banks) into a large federation organized in a P2P style. This middleware will offer transparent homogeneous access to legacy and new brand services and it will hide the heterogeneity such as: technology, network, user interface, security, ...
  2. Answer to a growing request for a larger access to the bioinformatics resources.
  3. Define a decision making procedure to help the users to use the services with an adequate GUI depending on its profile.
  4. Deploy an operational prototype on several European laboratories.

Keywords

middleware, broker, bioinformatics, wrapper, ontology, integration, scaling, architecture

Distributions

Publications

2004

  • Rapport Scientifique et Technique 1er année. Quentin DALLONS, Olivier DUGAS, Pierre BUYLE, Joseph MAVOR, Amin MANTRACH, Utku SALIHOGLU, Hugues BERSINI, Marc COLET, Vincent ENGLEBERT, 2004. (232 pages). (BIB)
  • Evaluation technologiques de solutions de middleware. Quentin DALLONS, Pierre BUYLE, Vincent ENGLEBERT, 2004. (BIB)

2005

  • BIGRE: An Ontology Driven Bioinformatics Service Integration Environment. Quentin DALLONS, Olivier DUGAS, Pierre BUYLE, Joseph MAJOR, Amin MANTRACH, Utku SALIHOGLU, Hugues BERSINI, Marc COLET, Vincent ENGLEBERT . Annual International Conference on Intelligent systems for molecular biology (Poster Session), 2005. (BIB)
  • Rapport Scientifique et Technique 2nd année. Quentin DALLONS, Olivier DUGAS, Pierre BUYLE, Joseph MAVOR, Amin MANTRACH, Utku SALIHOGLU, Hugues BERSINI, Marc COLET, Vincent ENGLEBERT, 2005. (BIB)

Présentations

2004

  • Ontologie de description de données et de services en bioinformatique projet BIGRE. Olivier DUGAS, Amin MANTRACH. Journées Bioinformatiques du CINES 2004 - Métadonnées et Ontologies (OntoBio), 2004. (BIB)

2005

  • BIGRE : Bioinformatics Grid Resources and Environments. Quentin DALLONS, Olivier DUGAS, Pierre BUYLE, Joseph MAJOR, Amin MANTRACH, Utku SALIHOGLU, Hugues BERSINI, Marc COLET, Vincent ENGLEBERT. Belgian Bioinformatics Conference, 2005. (BIB)
  • BIGRE : Bioinformatics Grid Resources and Environments. Pierre BUYLE, Quentin DALLONS, Vincent ENGLEBERT. Journée CNRS - Passage à l'échelle et médiation, 2005. (PDF) (BIB)

People

Managers

  • Hugues BERSINI, ULB/IRIDIA
  • Marc COLET, ULB/IBMM
  • Vincent ENGLEBERT, FUNDP

Researchers

  • Pierre BUYLE, FUNDP
  • Quentin DALLONS, FUNDP
  • Oliver DUGAS, ULB/IBMM
  • Tom LENAERTS, ULB/IRIDIA
  • Amin MANTRACH, ULB/IRIDIA
  • Joseph MAVOR, ULB/IBMM

External collaborators

  • Utku SALIHOGLU, ULB/IRIDIA
  • Francois VERMAUT, FUNDP

Students

  • Marie-Laetitia DENAYER, FUNDP
  • Amandine SCHUURMAN, FUNDP
  • Rémy MAINIL, FUNDP
  • François DELCOUX, ULB/IBMM

Partnership

This project is a partnership between IBMM/ULB, FUNDP and IRIDIA/ULB and represent an effort of 18 years/man over 3 years.

Financing

Supported by the "Région Wallonne" (program WIST 2003).