[CAnet - news] Cyber-infrastructure and Service Oriented Science - SCIENCE speical issue

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[The latest issue of SCIENCE magazine has a special issue of
cyber-infrastructure, distributed computing and service oriented science.
Unfortunately you have to be a subscriber to retrieve on-line versions of
the articles.  I have included abstracts of Ian Foster's paper on Service
Oriented Science and Tony Hey's Cyber-infrastructure for e-Science-- BSA]


Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION

All for One and One for All
D. Clery and D. Voss

NEWS
Grassroots Supercomputing
J. Bohannon

Grid Sport: Competitive Crunching
J. Bohannon

Data-Bots Chart the Internet
M. Buchanan

VIEWPOINTS
Service-Oriented Science
I. Foster

	
Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science
T. Hey and A. E.Trefethen

Cyberinfrastructure: Empowering a "Third Way" in Biomedical Research
K. H. Buetow

Also of related interest in this issue:

Editorial: An Endless Frontier Postponed
E. D. Lazowska and D. A. Patterson

News: IBM Offers Free Number Crunching for Humanitarian Research Projects
D. Kennedy


In STKE 			

PERSPECTIVE

Text Mining for Metabolic Pathways, Signaling Cascades, and Protein Networks
R. Hoffmann et al.
    Automatically extracting meaning is still a tricky process. 

	

PERSPECTIVE

A Life Science Semantic Web -- Are We There Yet?
E. Neumann
    An enhanced "next generation" of the World Wide Web may better serve
biologists for information management. 

Service Oriented Science
Ian Foster

Abstract
New information architectures enable new approaches to publishing and
accessing valuable data and programs. So-called service-oriented
architectures define standard interfaces and protocols that allow developers
to encapsulate information tools as services that clients can access without
knowledge of, or control over, their internal workings. Thus, tools formerly
accessible only to the specialist can be made available to all; previously
manual data-processing and analysis tasks can be automated by having
services access services. Such service-oriented approaches to science are
already being applied successfully, in some cases at substantial scales, but
much more effort is required before these approaches are applied routinely
across many disciplines. Grid technologies can accelerate the development
and adoption of service-oriented science by enabling a separation of
concerns between discipline specific content and domain-independent software
and hardware infrastructure.


Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science
Tony Hey and Anne E. Trefethen

Abstarct
Here we describe the requirements of an e-Infrastructure to enable faster,
better, and different scientific research capabilities. We use two
application exemplars taken from the United Kingdom's e-Science Programme to
illustrate these requirements and make the case for a service-oriented
infrastructure. We provide a brief overview of the UK ''plug-and play
composable services'' vision and the role of semantics in such an
e-Infrastructure.


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