Biodiversity World: An Architecture for an Extensible Virtual Laboratory for Analysing Biodiversity Patterns
Richard White1, Andrew Jones, Nick Pittas, Alex Gray, Tim Sutton, Xuebiao Xu, Oliver Bromley, Neil Caithness, Frank Bisby, Nick Fiddian, Malcolm Scoble, Alistair Culham, Paul Williams, Paul ValdesIn Biodiversity World we are exploring how a problem-solving environment (the BDWorld PSE) can be designed and developed to make heterogeneous data sources and analytic tools for biodiversity informatics available in a GRID environment. Our aim is to provide scientists with tools with which they can readily access resources that were originally designed for use in isolation, composing these resources into complex workflows, and to make it as straightforward as we can for new resources to be created and introduced to the system.