Includes bibliographical references and author index.

Gene trek in procaryote space powered by a GRID environment / Hideaki Sugawara -- An integrated system for distributed bioinformatics environment on grids / Kenji Satou [and others] -- Distributed cell biology simulations with e-cell system / Masahiro Sugimoto [and others] -- The architectural design of high-throughput BLAST services on OBIGrid / Fumikazu Konishi and Akihiko Konagaya -- Heterogeneous database federation using grid technology for drug discovery process / Yukako Tohsato [and others] -- Grid portal interface for interactive use and monitoring of high-throughput proteome annotation / Atif Shahab [and others] -- Grid workflow software for a high-throughput proteome annotation pipeline / Adam Birnbaum [and others] -- Genome-wide functional annotation environment forin OBIGrid / Akinobu Fukuzaki [and others] -- Parallel artificial intelligence hybrid framework for protein classification / Martin Chew Wooi Keat, Rosni Abdullah, Rosalina Abdul Salam -- Parallelization of phylogenetic tree inference using grid technologies / Yo Yamamoto [and others] -- EMASGRID: an NBBnet grid initiative for a bioinformatics and computational biology servicesinfrastructure in Malaysia / Mohd Firdaus Raih [and others] -- Development of a grid infrastructure for functional genomics / Richard Sinnott [and others] -- Building a biodiversity GRID / Andrew C. Jones [and others] -- Mega process genetic algorithm using grid MP / Yoshiko Hanada [and others] -- "Gridifying" an evolutionary algorithm for inference of genetic networks using the improved GOGA framework and its performance evaluation on OBI grid / Hiroaki Imade [and others].

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Annotation This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the First International Life Science Grid Workshop, LSGRID 2004, held in Kanazawa, Japan in May/ June 2004. The 10 revised full papers and 5 invited papers presented were carefully selected and went through two rounds of reviewing and revision. Among the topics addressed are grid environment for bioinformatics, grid architectures, database federation, proteome annotation, grid workflow software, functional genome annotation, protein classification, tree inference, parallel computing, high performance computing, grid infrastructures, functional genomics, and evolutionary algorithms.