E-Science @ EBI

e-Science aims to provide support for large-scale science by enabling distributed global collaborations through the formation of virtual co-laboratories that allow scientists to work together irrespective of location and permit universal access to scientific resources.

The aim of e-Science is to make the computing support invisible and the complexity disappear so that the scientist can think about the science & not the computing infrastructure. Our current approach is outlined in this document.

e-Science is about exploiting digital technology to support all aspects of scientific activity by the development of a communication and computational infrastructure to underpin the work of scientists. This will necessitate exploiting technologies including middleware, compute & data grids & the sematic web.

Given the exponential growth in the integration, storage & compute requirements of molecular biology, the EMBL-EBI views making its public resources available to an e-Science & Grid platform as being a forward-looking endeavour. Thus the EMBL-EBI is participating in a number of projects contributing towards the development of an e-Science & Grid infrastructure for biology.