eResearch Grid Environment for Integration of Distributed Kidney Models and Resources

我们的目标是产生一种基于协作计算的方法来集成和表示分布式肾脏模型和资源，使研究人员能够访问模型和数据库并与之交互，而不管其格式或位置如何，从而允许在各种模拟中对新假设进行定量在线探索。我们将开发一个门户网站，提供肾脏的交互式3D可视化，作为一个用户界面，收集分布式发布的模型和提取的资源，在肾脏生理学的各个层面。这些模型将设在法国、新西兰、澳大利亚和美国，并在国际上提供给使用网格分布式计算系统的客户用户。

We aim to produce a collaborative computing based approach to integrating and representing distributed renal models and resources that will enable researchers to gain access to and interact with the models and databases irrespective of format or location, permitting quantitative online exploration of new hypotheses within a variety of simulations. We will develop a portal providing an interactive 3D visualisation of the kidney as a user interface to a collection of distributed published models and extracted resources at all levels of renal physiology. The models will be hosted in France, New Zealand, Australia and the USA and be made available internationally to client users using Grid-based distributed computing systems.