<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>The Grid is touted as a next generation Internet/Web, designed primarily to support
e-Science. I hope to shed some light on what the Grid is, its purpose, and its potential
impact on scientific practice in biology. The key message is that biologists are already
primarily working in a manner that the Grid is intended to support. However, to ensure
that the Grid’s good intentions are appropriate and fulfilled in practice, biologists must
become engaged in the process of its development.</p>
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