TY - CHAP A1 - Dünnweber, Jan A1 - Lüdeking, Philipp A1 - Gorlatch, Sergei A2 - Danelutto, Marco A2 - Fragopoulou, Paraskevi A2 - Getov, Vladimir T1 - A Higher-Order Component for Efficient Genome Processing on the Grid T2 - Making Grids Work N2 - Computational grids combine computers in the Internet for distributed data processing and are an attractive platform for the data-intensive applications of bioinformatics. We present an extensible genome processing software for the grid and evaluate its performance. Our software was able to discover previously unknown circular permutations (CP) in the ProDom database containing more than 70MB of protein data. A specific feature of our software is its design as a component: the Alignment HOC, a Higher-Order Component that makes use of the latest Globus toolkit as grid middleware. Besides genome data, the Alignment HOC accepts plugin code for processing this data as its input, and contains all the required configuration to run the component on top of Globus, thus, freeing the non-grid-expert user from dealing with grid middleware. Instead of writing data distribution procedures and configuring the middleware appropriately for every new algorithm, Alignment HOC users reuse the existing component and only write application-specific plugins. To maintain plugins persistently in a reusable manner, we built a web-accessible plugin database with a comfortable administration GUI. The flexible component-based implementation makes it easy to study CPs in other databases (e.g. UniProt/Swiss-Prot) or to use an alignment algorithm different than the standard Needleman-Wunsch. For the efficient distribution of workload, we developed a library of group communication operations for HOCs. KW - higher-order components KW - genome processing KW - sequence alignment KW - middleware Y1 - 2021 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2134 SN - 978-0-387-78447-2 SP - 351 EP - 362 PB - Springer CY - Boston, MA ER -