At Freed.in/2007, Samir Brahmachari presented his ideas on Open Source Drug Discovery - which proposes to use the principles of open source to scientific pursuit: specifically to the drug discovery process applied to neglected tropical diseases like tuberculosis. Prof. Brahmachari is now the Director-General of the CSIR, and the project has started -with its first deadline - to develop a portal by the 15th of August.
The choice of components and architecture - obviously open source where available - would be largely chosen on (a) ease of extensibility and maintenance by the developer and end-user community. Placed below is a listing of the results from the first brain-storming. Please comment on your experience with any component, and suggest alternatives where possible: Requirements: Collaboration, Content-management, an Open Lab note-book, project management and workflow 1. OS Solaris Enterprise Linux 2. Application server GlassFish JBOSS Apache Tomcat Apache 3. Portal Engine Sun Open Portal LifeRay Note: Most users/developers of computational biology applications web-enable their applications using a LAMP stack. Q: Can similar portal functionalities be provided by Joomla/Drupal/etc ? 4. Ability to seperate computationally expensive applications on dedicated hardware: N1 Grid Engine 5. Accounting and Auditing can be done using N1 Grid engine OpenLDAP 6. Resource Service Broker GridBus Broker 3.0 7. Database MySQL PostgreSQL 8. Data Warehousing (Do we need this?) The only suggestions in the first cut were proprietary solutions. Data Warehouse – GreenPlum Data Integration/Extraction Tool – Informatica Design/BI - Microstrategy 9. Secured Remote Access Secure Global Desktop – For remote access. VPN or tunnels with rdesktop or VNC. 10. Workflow jBPM is built into JBOSS. The taverna project (workflow developed for computational biology) Andrew Lynn for the OSDD team and thanks to Raj Mathur for some suggestions incorporated above _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
