Engineering of services and business models for grid applications

In the context of using grid applications in medicine and bioinformatics a combination of classic biomedical services like the analysis of biomaterial with grid services is quite common. Services for customers in those fields need to comprise both and offer an easy way to use these combined services. Within the German project Services@MediGRID, methods for the systematic development of complex customer services including the use of grid applications are developed. In coordination with this service engineering approach for grid applications, commercial business models are derived for a set of biomedical grid services.