Introduction to West-Life

West-life Virtual Research Environment provides services and features for structural biologists. West-life serves three kinds of users:


Life scientists:

West-life provides you with various structural biology e-science portals, accessible in the "Services" menu.

In addition to that, you can manage all your data (EUDAT, Dropbox etc) in 1 place with the virtual folder, and send data directly to West-life portals (which are connected to the virtual folder).

Services Page

Advanced Users

West-life Virtual Research Environment (VRE) can be deployed locally, or in the cloud, thanks to Westlife VMs.

Cloud Page

Portal Developers

Programmers who develop structural biology web services can join the West-life ecosystem in order to create services that interoperate.

This section provides guidelines.

Developers Page