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Motivation: Biologists and chemists are facing problems of high computational complexity that require the use of several computers organized in clusters or in specialized grids. Examples of such problems can be found in molecular dynamics (MD), in silico screening, and genome analysis. Grid Computing and Cloud Computing are becoming prevalent mainly because of their competitive performance/cost ratio. Regrettably, the diffusion of Grid Computing is strongly limited because two main limitations: it is confined to scientists with strong Computer Science background and the analyses of the large amount of data produced can be cumbersome it. We have developed a package named GRIMD to provide an easy and flexible implementation of distributed computing for the Bioinformatics community. GRIMD is very easy to install and maintain, and it does not require any specific Computer Science skill. Moreover, permits preliminary analysis on the distributed machines to reduce the amount of data to transfer. GRIMD is very flexible because it shields the typical computational biologist from the need to write specific code for tasks such as molecular dynamics or docking calculations. Furthermore, it permits an efficient use of GPU cards whenever is possible. GRIMD calculations scale almost linearly and, therefore, permits to exploit efficiently each machine in the network. Here, we provide few examples of grid computing in computational biology (MD and docking) and bioinformatics (proteome analysis).AvailabilityGRIMD is available for free for noncommercial research at www.yadamp.unisa.it/grimdSupplementary informationwww.yadamp.unisa.it/grimd/howto.aspx

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  • The main ideas behind Distributed Computing are not new and several successful distributed systems have already been developed to harness idle computer time

  • Examples of such problems can be found in molecular dynamics (MD), in silico screening, and genome analysis

  • We have developed a package named GRIMD to provide an easy and flexible implementation of distributed computing for the Bioinformatics community

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The main ideas behind Distributed Computing are not new and several successful distributed systems have already been developed to harness idle computer time. We have developed a package named GRIMD to provide an easy and flexible implementation of distributed computing for the Bioinformatics community.

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