Supporting Collaborative Grid Application Development Within the E-Science Community‪.‬

Abstract: Collaboration by use of common artifacts is at the core of e-science. A recent enabling technology is the Grid, which ties together heterogeneous computation and data resources through the use of middleware, linking the techniques and resources to infer higher-level knowledge. This article presents results from research and development of Grid technology for semantic interoperability between scientific artifacts on the web. The research employs the 'industry-as-laboratory' approach to software development. This means development of theory and models through successive implementations, their deployment in pilot studies and subsequent evaluation studies. The research is exemplified through the c ase of the OSCAR project, which is directed to the domain of bioinformatics. Key words: Web collaboratory, grid technology, e-science