BioSimGrid

{{Short description|Computer modelling project for proteins}}

{{Orphan|date=March 2018}}

BioSimGrid was a project to make data sets from computer simulations in the field of modelling biological systems, particularly biomolecular structures, more accessible to researchers. The project began in 2004 and halted by 2009.

In 2004 designers presented the concept of the project as a "protein data bank extended in time".{{cite journal|last1=Tai|first1=Kaihsu|last2=Murdock|first2=Stuart|last3=Wu|first3=Bing|last4=Ng|first4=Muan Hong|last5=Johnston|first5=Steven|last6=Fangohr|first6=Hans|last7=Cox|first7=Simon J.|last8=Jeffreys|first8=Paul|last9=Essex|first9=Jonathan W.|last10=P. Sansom|first10=Mark S.|title=BioSimGrid: towards a worldwide repository for biomolecular simulations|journal=Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry|date=2004|volume=2|issue=22|pages=3219–21|doi=10.1039/b411352g|pmid=15534698|citeseerx=10.1.1.58.9886}} Other developers presented a web portal for accessing data in the project.{{cite book|last1=Wu|first1=B.|last2=Dovey|first2=M.|last3=Ng|first3=M.H.|last4=Tai|first4=K.|last5=Murdock|first5=S.|last6=Jeffreys|first6=P.|last7=Cox|first7=S.|last8=Essex|first8=J.|last9=Sansom|first9=M.S.P.|title=International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004 |chapter=A Web/Grid portal implementation of BioSimGrid: A biomolecular simulation database |year=2004|pages=50–54 |volume=2|doi=10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286589|isbn=978-0-7695-2108-4|citeseerx=10.1.1.108.6976|s2cid=5729099}} Other designers described the project as efficient.{{cite web |last1=Ng |first1=Muan Hong|last2=Johnston|first2=Steven|last3=Murdock|first3=Stuart|last4=Wu|first4=Bing|last5=Tai|first5=Kaihsu|last6=Fangohr|first6=Hans|last7=Cox|first7=Simon|last8=Essex|first8=Jonathan W.|last9=Sansom|first9=Mark|last10=Jeffreys|first10=Paul|title=Efficient data storage and analysis for generic biomolecular simulation data|pages=443–450|date=2004|url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/23166/}}

A review in 2006 described how BioSimGrid was a model project for making data from research more open.{{cite journal|last1=Ng|first1=Muan Hong|last2=Johnston|first2=Steven|last3=Wu|first3=Bing|last4=Murdock|first4=Stuart E.|last5=Tai|first5=Kaihsu|last6=Fangohr|first6=Hans|last7=Cox|first7=Simon J.|last8=Essex|first8=Jonathan W.|last9=Sansom|first9=Mark S.P.|last10=Jeffreys|first10=Paul|title=BioSimGrid: Grid-enabled biomolecular simulation data storage and analysis|journal=Future Generation Computer Systems|date=May 2006|volume=22|issue=6|pages=657–664|doi=10.1016/j.future.2005.10.005|url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/65004/1/Ng_06pp.pdf}}

BioSimGrid contributors accepted a grant from the National Institutes of Health in 2007.{{cite journal|last1=Murdock|first1=Stuart|title=Extending Biosimgrid for Biomol Simulation|url=http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/P41-RR008605-14-7756|journal=Grantome|language=en|date=2007}}