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'Building Grids for Europe' brochure
Table of contents
- Welcome
- What is a Grid?
- Grids: Crucial technologies and applications for Europe
- Grid Expectations
- Emergency Response Grid
- The Health Grid
- Building Grids for Europe
- Towards a European Research Area for Grids
- Capitalising on EU Grid reseach
The Health Grid
Grids will have an enormous impact on the healthcare sector, from accelerating the development of medicines to improving the analysis of health factors across entire populations.
Healthcare will be revolutionised in the 21st century by the mapping of the human genome, and proteomics, the analysis of protein functions. Both disciplines are creating massive new databases in laboratories across the world. Without the right bioinformatics tools to share and use this data, however, the promise may never be realised.
Grids will allow laboratories around the world, working together in virtual organisations, to search the data and create new molecules in silico with desired characteristics (multi-drug resistance, toxicity, etc.) for testing.
As another example in healthcare, Grids allow the federation of databases of mammograms from across Europe, along with software tools to improve breast cancer screening and diagnosis.