Grid-enabled high throughput in-silico screening against influenza A neuraminidase

PCSV, présenté par H.-C. Lee, à paraître dans les proceedings ; Encouraged by the success of first EGEE biomedical data challenge against malaria[1], the second data challenge was kicked off in April, 2006, fighting against avian flu. In the paper, we demonstrated how to adopt a world-wide deployed Grid infrastructure to efficiently produce a large scale virtual screening to speed up the drug design process. The 6-weeks activity of molecular docking on the Grid has covered over 100 years of computing power required for discovering new drug for avian flu. Around 600 Gigabytes of output has also been produced and archived on the Grid for further biological analysis and test.