Granular Security for a Science Gateway in Structural Bioinformatics. Gesing, S., Grunzke, R., Balasḱo, Ά, Birkenheuer, G., Blunk, D., Breuers, S., Brinkmann, A., Fels, G., Herres-Pawlis, S., Kacsuk, P., Kozlovszky, M., Krüger, J., Packschies, L., Scḧafer, P., Schuller, B., Schuster, J., Steinke, T., Fabri, Szikszay, A., Wewior, M., Müller-Pfefferkorn, R., & Kohlbacher, O. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Science Gateways for Life Sciences, of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011.
Granular Security for a Science Gateway in Structural Bioinformatics [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
Structural Bioinformatics is concerned with computational methods for the analysis and modeling of three-dimensional molecular structures. There is a plethora of computational tools available to work with structural data on a large scale. Using these tools on distributed computing infrastructures (DCI), however, is often hampered by a lack of suitable interfaces. The MoSGrid (Molecular Simulation Grid) science gateway provides an intuitive user interface to several widelyused tools in structural bioinformatics. It ensures the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data via a granular security concept which covers all layers of the infrastructure. The concept applies SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and allows trust delegation from the user interface layer across the high-level middleware layer and the grid middleware layer down to the HPC facilities. SAML assertions had to be integrated into the MoSGrid infrastructure in several places: the workflow-enabled grid portal WS-PGRADE, the gUSE (grid User Support Environment) DCI services, and the cloud file system XtreemFS. The security infrastructure presented here allows single sign-on and thus lowers the hurdle for users to utilize large HPC infrastructures for structural bioinformatics.
@inproceedings{ gesing:2011:b,
  abstract = {Structural Bioinformatics is concerned with computational methods
	for the analysis and modeling of three-dimensional molecular structures.
	There is a plethora of computational tools available to work with
	structural data on a large scale. Using these tools on distributed
	computing infrastructures (DCI), however, is often hampered by a
	lack of suitable interfaces. The MoSGrid (Molecular Simulation Grid)
	science gateway provides an intuitive user interface to several widelyused
	tools in structural bioinformatics. It ensures the confidentiality,
	integrity and availability of data via a granular security concept
	which covers all layers of the infrastructure. The concept applies
	SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and allows trust delegation
	from the user interface layer across the high-level middleware layer
	and the grid middleware layer down to the HPC facilities. SAML assertions
	had to be integrated into the MoSGrid infrastructure in several places:
	the workflow-enabled grid portal WS-PGRADE, the gUSE (grid User Support
	Environment) DCI services, and the cloud file system XtreemFS. The
	security infrastructure presented here allows single sign-on and
	thus lowers the hurdle for users to utilize large HPC infrastructures
	for structural bioinformatics.},
  added-at = {2013-10-29T14:07:42.000+0100},
  author = {Gesing, Sandra and Grunzke, Richard and Balask{́{o}}, {Ά}kos and Birkenheuer, Georg and Blunk, Dirk and Breuers, Sebastian and Brinkmann, Andre and Fels, Gregor and Herres-Pawlis, Sonja and Kacsuk, Peter and Kozlovszky, Miklos and Kr{ü}ger, Jens and Packschies, Lars and Sch{̈{a}}fer, Patrick and Schuller, Bernd and Schuster, Johannes and Steinke, Thomas and Fabri, Anna Szikszay and Wewior, Martin and M{ü}ller-Pfefferkorn, Ralph and Kohlbacher, Oliver},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26520e6db956b40e0a767ba8a3223a15b/mosgrid},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Science Gateways	for Life Sciences},
  interhash = {110e409be540cd685121f44806a5eec9},
  intrahash = {6520e6db956b40e0a767ba8a3223a15b},
  issn = {1613-0073},
  journal = {Proceedings of 3rd Workshop IWSG-Life 2011},
  keywords = {Gateway Science},
  series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  title = {{Granular Security for a Science Gateway in Structural Bioinformatics}},
  url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-819/},
  year = {2011}
}

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