Enabling Large-Scale Biomedical Analysis in the Cloud

Abstract EN

Recent progress in high-throughput instrumentations has led to an astonishing growth in both volume and complexity of biomedical data collected from various sources.

The planet-size data brings serious challenges to the storage and computing technologies.

Cloud computing is an alternative to crack the nut because it gives concurrent consideration to enable storage and high-performance computing on large-scale data.

This work briefly introduces the data intensive computing system and summarizes existing cloud-based resources in bioinformatics.

These developments and applications would facilitate biomedical research to make the vast amount of diversification data meaningful and usable.