Grid portal formultiple sequence alibnment

Multiple sequence alignment is by far the most common task in computational biology. At the same time it is very computationally demanding optimisation problem. In this paper we describe a new Grid environment designed to facilitate access to the parallel multiple sequence alignment software. Our user-oriented Grid interface provides a uniform access to several popular alignment packages like, for example, ClustalW-MPI or Parallel PhyloBuilder, and it allows large alignment instances to be solved in parallel efficiently.