Partners
WISDOM is organized with a core group of institutes which are developing the tools used to achieve virtual screening on grids and to make the results as widely available as possible to the research communities.
Around this core group of partners, institutes are contributing to the different large scale deployments by committing targets or further studying the best hits coming out of virtual screening.
European projects and grid infrastructures are supporting the WISDOM initiative.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of BioSolveIT (www.biosolveit.de).
The following institutes are members of WISDOM core group:
- SCAI, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany (www.scai.fraunhofer.de)
- LPC Clermont-Ferrand, CNRS-IN2P3 Université Blaise Pascal, France (http://clrpcsv.in2p3.fr)
- University of Modena, Italy (www.unimo.it)
- Academia Sinica (www.twgrid.org and http://www.genomics.sinica.edu.tw)
- ITB-CNR, Italy (www.itb.cnr.it)
- Healthgrid (healthgrid.org)
- Chonnam National University (http://altair.chonnam.ac.kr/~carboenz)
- Korean Institute of Science and technology Information (http://www.kisti.re.kr)
The different partners bring their expertise to the collaboration as follows:
- the SCAI, Fraunhofer Institute has been contributing to WISDOM at various levels. SCAI maintains and operates an EGEE grid node, but also the FlexX license servers required for the use of FlexX during the data challenges. SCAI was also instrumental in the target selection and preparation for both WISDOM-I and WISDOM-II as well as for WISDOM-I analysis.
- LPC Clermont-Ferrand brings to WISDOM its experience with running biomedical applications on grid infrastructures. LPC has been developing the grid production environment and coordinating the grid deployment during the data challenges
- University of Modena brings its expertise in molecular dynamics. Univ. of Modena has developed an MD procedure which is used for reranking the best hits coming out of the WISDOM-I data challenge.
- Academica Sinica has led the data challenge on avian flu, providing targets, compound libraries and the grid production environment DIANE. Academica SInica is also coordinating the analysis of this data challenge.
- ITB-CNR brings its expertise in bio- and chimio-informatics for the parametrization of the docking software (Autodock) and the analysis of the docking results.
- The Healthgrid association is developing and hosting the web site as well as promoting WISDOM as one of the first large scale biomedical applications taking advantage of the grid environments.
- Chonnam National University Laboratory of Carbohydrate Enzymes and Microbial Genomics brings its expertise for in vitro validation of the in silico screening process
- KISTI is the national computing resource center for research in Korea and as such brings resources as well as expertise in the field of information technology and engineering
The following institutes have contributed to the large virtual docking projects already deployed on grid infrastructures:
- Pretoria University, South Africa (www.up.ac.za)
- University of Los Andes, Venezuela (www.ula.ve)
- ACCAMBA projet, France (accamba.imag.fr)
- CEA, France (www-dsv.cea.fr/content/cea_eng/d_dep/d_drdc)
- ARDA group, CERN (http://lcg.web.cern.ch/lcg/activities/arda/arda.html)
- Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
The following projects support the WISDOM initiative:
- The European project EGEE (www.eu-egee.org)
- The European project BioinfoGRID (www.bioinfogrid.eu)
- The European network of excellence Embrace (www.embracegrid.info)
The following grid infrastructures have contributed to the world-wide deployments:
- The European project EGEE (www.eu-egee.org)
- The Auvergne Auvergrid infrastructure(www.auvergrid.fr)
- The Taiwan TWGrid infrastructure (www.twgrid.org)
- The European-Latinamerican EELA infrastructure (www.eu-eela.org)
- The mediterranean EUMedGRID infrastructure (www.eumedgrid.org)
- The European-chinese EUChinaGRID infrastructure (www.euchinagrid.org)
