Building a Virtual Laboratory for Scientific Experimentation in Molecular Biology

Abstract

This paper describes the application of the generic framework provided by the Grid·based Virtual Laboratory Amsterdam (VLAM-G). in the support of complex experimentation scenarios in the domain of molecular biology. The focus of the paper lies on both the analysis of some reference experimentation scenarios. and the on-going extension and tuning of Virtual Laboratory environment to better support advanced scientific experiments in this domain.

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