Replication and update of molecular biology databases

Update of molecular biology databases is a growing burden on the biomedical research community. As the grid allows to share and replicate data, we propose a service to automatically update the molecular biology databases from a single changing reference using Web services. In this paper we report the components, the architecture, and the deployment of the update service on the french RUGBI grid infrastructure. RUGBI is a computing grid infrastructure based on existing middleware and technologies for the community of scientists in bioinformatics.