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| International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences

### Proceedings of the International Workshop IWPLS'09, Edinburgh, UK, September 14-15, 2009.

Edited by

### Sandra Gesing *
Jano van Hemert #

* University of Tübingen, Wilhelm Schickard Institute, Department for Simulation of Biological Systems, Sand 14, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
# University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, United Kingdom
The workshop was supported by the e-Science Institute Edinburgh and the Scottish Bioinformatics Forum.

## Table of Contents

Preface
S. Gesing and J. van Hemert

1. Portals for Life Sciences - a Brief Introduction
   S. Gesing, O. Kohlbacher, and J. van Hemert
2. On the Performance of Large Scale Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses with Grid Portals and Robot Certificates
   R. Barbera, G. Donvito, A. Falzone, G. La Rocca, G. Maggi, S. Vicario, and L. Milanesi
3. Towards Realization of Scientific Dataspaces for the Breath Gas Analysis Research Community
   I. Elsayed, T. Ludescher, K. Schwarz, T. Feilhauer, A. Amann, and P. Brezany
4. G-FLUXO: A Workflow Portal Specialized in Computational BioChemistry
   E. Gutiérrez, A. Costantini, J. López Cacheiro, and A. Rodríguez
5. Rapid Development of Computational Science Portals
   J. Koetsier and J. van Hemert
6. Potential of Mean Force of Ion Permeation through alpha7 nAChRIon Channel
   J. Krüger and G. Fels
7. Life Sciences & The Dutch Grid: An Analysis from a Grid Supporter's Perspective
   E. Lammerts
8. Sys-Bio Gateway: a Framework of Bioinformatics Database Resources Oriented to Systems Biology
   L. Milanesi, R. Alfieri, E. Mosca, F. Viti, P. D'Ursi, and I. Merelli
9. Security-oriented Portals for the Life Sciences
   R.O. Sinnott, T. Doherty, J. Jiang, S. McCafferty, A. Stell, and J. Watt
10. Building Science Gateways with EnginFrame: a Life Science example
    L. Torterolo, I. Porro, M. Fato, M. Melato, A. Calanducci, and R. Barbera

05-Oct-2009: submitted by Sandra Gesing
06-Oct-2009: published on CEUR-WS.org