myGrid and the drug discovery process

myGrid and the drug discovery process

The Grid is proposed as the next-generation Web, and will provide the computational power and data management infrastructure necessary to support the collaboration of people, together with data, tools and computational resources [1]. The scientific process is an example of such a collaborative process where Grid technology can facilitate virtual organizations of people, machines and instruments...

The drug discovery process.

The myGrid ontology: bioinformatics service discovery

(my)Grid supports in silico experiments in the life sciences, enabling the design and enactment of workflows as well as providing components to assist service discovery, data and metadata management. The (my)Grid ontology is one component in a larger semantic discovery framework for the identification of the highly distributed and heterogeneous bioinformatics services in the public domain. From...

Ethnobotany, Ethnopharmacology and Drug Discovery

     This manuscript is a review of a number of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology texts and papers in order to arrive at current understanding and scope of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. It includes either a brief definition of both fields and presenting some examples on them. Also it has a glimpse on the geographical coverage of research works throughout the world, important issue of prope...

Advancing the drug discovery and development process.

The current state of affairs in the drug discovery and development process is briefly summarized and then ways to take advantage of the ever-increasing fundamental knowledge and technical knowhow in chemistry and biology and related disciplines are discussed. The primary motivation of this Essay is to celebrate the great achievements of chemistry, biology, and medicine and to inform and inspire...