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.

• September 8-11, 2008
  The UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM) 2008 in Edinburgh, UK, September 8-11, 2008.Further information is provided at http://www.allhands.org.uk/2008/conference/index.cfm
• October 13-15, 2008
  The 8th Cracow Grid Workshop 2008 taking place in Krakow, Poland, October 13-15, 2008.More information on the workshop and the actual Call for Papers can be found at http://www.cyfronet.pl/cgw08/
• October 22-24, 2008
  The eChallenges e-2008 Conference takes place in Stockholm, Sweden, October 22-24, 2008.Details on the conference are available at http://www.echallenges.org/e2008/
• October 23-24, 2008
  The ICT BIO 2008 Conference in Brussels, Belgium, October 23-24, 2008. A demonstration on the ViroLab Virtual Laboratory is planned to take place at this event. Read more here

Past events:

• June 23-25, 2008
  ICCS 2008 conference – 23-25 June 2008, Krakow, Poland. A list of all accepted papers can be found hereFor further information on the conference refer to ICCS website
• June 17-19, 2008
  A paper on the "ViroLab Virtual Laboratory" has been accepted for presentation at the 21th IEEE International Symposium onComputer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2008) held on June 17-19, 2008 at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. More information on the CBMS 2008 conference: cbms2008.it.jyu.fi
  Additional information on the presentation will be posted on the website soon.
 
• June 13-16, 2008
  10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems(ICEIS 2008), June 13-16, Barcelona, Spain Read more...
 
• 26-28 March, 2008
  6th European HIV Drug Resistance Workshop 26-28 March 2008, Budapest, Hungary. Read more...
• 27 March - 1 April, 2008
  HIV Pathogenesis Keystone Meeting 27 March - 1 April, Banff, Canada Read more...

The combined supercomputing power of the UK and US 'national grids' has enabled UCL (University College London) scientists to simulate the efficacy of an HIV drug in blocking a key protein used by the lethal virus.

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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 aboratory 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.