The mission of ViroLab is to develop a virtual laboratory for infectious diseases. In future years, genetic information is expected to become increasingly significant in many areas of medicine. This expectation comes from the recent and anticipated achievements in genomics, which provide an unparalleled opportunity to advance the understanding of the role of genetic factors in human health and disease, to allow more precise definition of the non-genetic factors involved, and to apply this insight rapidly to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

Three main classes of ViroLab users have been identified: members of the medical scientific community, computer scientists, and industry or commercial users.

• June 22 - June 25, 2009
  Two team members from Cyfronet will attend the 31st International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, 22-25 June 2009, Dubrovnik, Croatia. More information: http://iti.srce.hr/
• June 28 - July 1, 2009
  ViroLab research will be presented at the HealthGrid 2009 Conference, Berlin, Germany, June 28 - July 1, 2009. More information: http://berlin2009.healthgrid.org
• August 24 - August 28, 2009
  A presentation entitled ViroLab Security and Virtual Organization Infrastructure will be given at the 8th international Conference on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, 24-25 August 2009, Rapperswil, Switzerland. More information: http://www.appt09.com/
• August 25 - August 25, 2009
  Representatives of the team will be present at Euro-Par 2009 Conference 25-28 August, Delft, The Netherlands. More information: http://europar2009.ewi.tudelft.nl/
• September 16 - September 18, 2009
  International Conference on Computational Bioengineering, Bertinoro (Forlì), Italy, September 16 - September 18, 2009. More information: http://www.iccb2009.org

Past events:

• April 21-23, 2009
  The European Future Technologies Conference (FET09), Prague, Czech Republic, April 21-23, 2009. More information: http://ec.europa.eu/fet09
• March 25-27, 2009
  The 7th European HIV Drug Resistance Workshop - From basic science to clinical decision making - Stockholm, Sweden, March 25-27, 2009.
  Further information can be found here.

The virtual laboratory is a set of integrated components that, used together, form a distributed and collaborative space for science. Multiple, geographically-dispersed laboratories and institutes use the virtual laboratory to plan, and perform experiments as well as share their results.The term experiment in this context means a so-called in-silico experiment - that is, a process that combines data and computations in order to obtain new knowledge on the subject of an experiment. Here we introduce a virtual laboratory that is built for the ViroLab Project. In this scope the laboratory is prepared to support virologists, epidemiologists and clinicians investigating the HIV virus and the possibilities of treating HIV-positive patients. Although the ViroLab Virtual Laboratory is being built specifically for this domain of science, the conceptual solutions and the technology developed could be reused for other domains.