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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / APRIL 21, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 16
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Scientific Applications:
SUN AND SCIENCE FACTORY SHOWCASE SOLUTIONS AT RECOMB 2003
Science factory and Sun Microsystems announce the availability of uberTOOL on
Solaris at a partner showcase at the RECOMB 2003. The new release of uberTOOL,
Version 1.1, features an inbuild support for the distribution of computational
tasks in research. This is shown at the RECOMB 2003, the seventh annual
International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology in
Berlin, on a Sun Blade2000.
Successful life science companies will operate at the confluence of the global
community's needs and information technology capabilities. Networks that
enable B2C, B2B, and other processes across vertical and horizontal industries
will be a must. More and more, organizations are using the Internet to create
exchanges and to improve collaboration and intellectual property management.
Life science-related basic research and medical product development require
highly capable IT infrastructures. Sun and its technology partners provide the
information backbone and best-of-breed solutions needed to meet the diverse
needs of the life sciences community -- spanning from desktops to teraflops
and beyond -- with real end-to-end solutions designed for this highly
regulated community.
With demand expected to grow past terabytes and gigaflops, high-performance
hardware, software, Java, networking, and storage technology will help
customers develop the unforeseen innovations of tomorrow. Sun offers
competitively priced high-performance products -- built from the ground up
with high-throughput networking in mind -- that feature reliability,
availability, and scalability in single-CPU desktops as well as massively
scalable systems and compute-farm products.
science factory's uberTOOL is a software system for the integration and
analysis of molecular biological data. The new system provides scientists with
over 200 types of bioinformatic methods and enables access to public
biological databases and proprietary data including all uberTOOL results.
Using an integrated programming language, the customer can also easily extend
the core functions. Interactive browsers for different biological data types
and diverse expansion possibilities simplify the collaboration of the various
users within the scalable client-server system in a unique way. While the
client operates under Solaris, Linux and various Windows operating systems,
the server requires Linux or Solaris.
"uberTOOL is surely the 'killer-application' for Solaris in life science
research organizations," states Hans Gerke Manager Industry Solutions Sun
Microsystems GmbH. "It enables a highly flexible and scalable workflow engine,
targeted to the complex research questions in bioinformatics."
"Sun hardware and Solaris is the preferred platform for the high throughput
analyses of biological data with its superior fast database access and file
IO," said Olav Zimmermann, Director of Sales, SCIENCE FACTORY GmbH, "and now
even more with the new release 1.1 of uberTOOL and its ability to distribute
workflows to arbitrary many Sun servers."
Science factory is a bioinformatics company providing intelligent software
solutions for modern genome and proteome research. Rapid advancement and
automation in research is leading to a flood of information from various
sources and of varying quality in many different formats. At the same time,
new methods of analyzing this information are constantly being developed.
science factory's products support research procedures intelligently and
efficiently and thus ensure the customer a head start on the competition
toward the decoding of various genomes as well as in the development of new
medications and products. For more information visit the web site,
www.science-factory.com.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that
make the Net work.
Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at
www.sun.com.
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