The e-BioGrid project is funded by BiG Grid through NWO, and led by partners NBIC, Nikhef and NCF to establish an e-infrastructure for life science research in the Netherlands.

Life sciences today need to get acquainted with data-intensive omics experimentation, allowing innovative and exciting life-science research. The ever-increasing complexity in terms of countless and heterogeneous subjects introduced a need for infrastructure: data handling, high-performance computation, data management and storage, standardization, statistics, design for experimentation, visualization, and multidisciplinary collaboration. This is especially true for technology application areas such as next-generation sequencing, microarray technology, mass spectroscopy, nanoscopy and biobanking. Development of an advanced computing e-infrastructure will enable more effective research in these areas.

The e-BioGrid project also aims to be the portal for Life Sciences to the infrastructure of the Big Grid project and to set up and provide functional computing infrastructure for life-science research using a pragmatic approach. By this we will answer questions and needs that arise from research projects in life-science application areas.

For example, data management is often a bottleneck for downstream analysis and the generation of insight info the data. Scientist may be struggling with inadequate tools for data management and analysis. Let us know your needs, so that the appropriate tool pipeline can be developed within the e-BioGrid program to answer research questions faster and more efficiently.