The LIBI Grid Platform an International Laboratory for Bioinformatics

The International Laboratory of BioInformatics (LIBI - www.libi.it) aims at setting up of an advanced Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory, focusing on the central activities of basic and applied research in modern Biology and Biotechnologies. The main activities include the construction and the maintenance of general genomic, proteomic and transcriptomic databases (e.g. ENSEMBL) as well as specialized databases developed by LIBI partners (e.g. MitoRes, UTRdb, UTRSite, ASPicDB, CSTdb, etc.); the design and implementation of new algorithms and software for the analysis of genomes and their expression products and for the prediction of the structure of proteins; the development of a Grid Problem Solving Environment in order to exploit the distributed computational infrastructure.