Andrew Michael Lynn wrote: > At Freed.in/2007, Samir Brahmachari presented his ideas on Open Source > Drug Discovery - which proposes to use the principles of open source to > scientific pursuit: specifically to the drug discovery process applied > to neglected tropical diseases like tuberculosis. Prof. Brahmachari is > now the Director-General of the CSIR, and the project has started -with > its first deadline - to develop a portal by the 15th of August. > > The choice of components and architecture - obviously open source where > available - would be largely chosen on (a) ease of extensibility and > maintenance by the developer and end-user community. Placed below is a > listing of the results from the first brain-storming. Please comment on > your experience with any component, and suggest alternatives where > possible: > > Requirements: Collaboration, Content-management, an Open Lab note-book, > project management and workflow > > 1. OS > Solaris > Enterprise Linux > > I think Solaris would be a good choice, though RHEL could also get the job done. > 2. Application server > GlassFish > JBOSS > Apache Tomcat > Apache > > In my personal opinion Glassfish would be best, its got a solid architecture, and has a lot going for it in terms of community support. > 3. Portal Engine > Sun Open Portal > LifeRay > > Note: Most users/developers of computational biology applications > web-enable their applications using a LAMP stack. Q: Can similar portal > functionalities be provided by Joomla/Drupal/etc ? > as a CMS drupal is great, it has great community support and a lot of modules, i am not sure if drupal can do what Sun Open portal can, but as far as a rock solid CMS is concerned Drupal is great and it also some collaboration modules that you may find useful > 4. Ability to seperate computationally expensive applications on > dedicated hardware: > N1 Grid Engine > > 5. Accounting and Auditing > can be done using N1 Grid engine > OpenLDAP > > 6. Resource Service Broker > GridBus Broker 3.0 > > 7. Database > MySQL > PostgreSQL > > 8. Data Warehousing (Do we need this?) The only suggestions in the first > cut were proprietary solutions. > Data Warehouse – GreenPlum > Data Integration/Extraction Tool – Informatica > Design/BI - Microstrategy > > 9. Secured Remote Access > Secure Global Desktop – For remote access. > VPN or tunnels with rdesktop or VNC. > > 10. Workflow > jBPM is built into JBOSS. > The taverna project (workflow developed for computational biology) > > Andrew Lynn > for the OSDD team and > thanks to Raj Mathur for some suggestions incorporated above > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
Regards, Aditya Kumar Sharma. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
