The BioVeL project: Robust phylogenetic workflows running on the GRID

Overview Altered species distributions, the changing nature of ecosystems and increased risks of extinction all have an impact in important areas of societal concern. Biologists and environmental scientists are asked to provide decision support for managing the biodiversity component of our environment at multiple scales (genomic, organism, habitat, ecosystem, landscape) to prevent and mitigate such losses. BioVeL want to address this needs offering a series of robust and reliable web services that could be managed with the suite of tools of the myGRID project. The project will propose workflow for these services that will ensure best practice and efficiency of usage. Within the first round of services produced by the project there are phylogenetic inference workflows. These workflows will provide to end user the capabilities to execute application that could easily exploit several kind of resources, like: EGI grid infrastructure, local batch farm or dedicated servers.