CloudMan as a platform for tool, data, and analysis distribution

BMC Bioinformatics

Enis Afgan²  Brad Chapman¹  James Taylor² 

[1] Bioinformatics Core, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

[2] Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

关键词: Galaxy;    Accessibility;    Reproducibility;    Service customization;    Cloud computing;   

Others  :  1088055
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2105-13-315

 received in 2012-02-14, accepted in 2012-11-15,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Cloud computing provides an infrastructure that facilitates large scale computational analysis in a scalable, democratized fashion, However, in this context it is difficult to ensure sharing of an analysis environment and associated data in a scalable and precisely reproducible way.

Results

CloudMan (usecloudman.org) enables individual researchers to easily deploy, customize, and share their entire cloud analysis environment, including data, tools, and configurations.

Conclusions

With the enabled customization and sharing of instances, CloudMan can be used as a platform for collaboration. The presented solution improves accessibility of cloud resources, tools, and data to the level of an individual researcher and contributes toward reproducibility and transparency of research solutions.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Afgan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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