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Abstract

This paper presents the design and the implementation of the new high performance biomedical data center of the Décrypthon computing grid which provides a strong potential for calculation and storage to high trhoughput biological applications and projects. In order to efficiently share the biological data required by the application, the Décrypthon data center is integrated in the computing grid to provide local databases of nucleotide, genomic and proteomic sequences. In addition, the access to methods for heterogeneous and distributeddata, and treatment of joint queries, analysis and visualization are provided. A new system of data integration, called BIRD (for Biological Integration and Retrieval of Data), considered as the core of the Décrypthon data center, was developed to locally integrate very large genomic, proteomic and transcriptomic datasets. BIRD also provides an engine and a high level query language allowing the biologist to extract pertinent information.