CLIMB (the Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics): an online resource for the medical microbiology community. Issue 9 (September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Connor, Thomas R.; Loman, Nicholas J.; Thompson, Simon; Smith, Andy; Southgate, Joel; Poplawski, Radoslaw; Bull, Matthew J.; Richardson, Emily; Ismail, Matthew; Thompson, Simon Elwood-; Kitchen, Christine; Guest, Martyn; Bakke, Marius; Sheppard, Samuel K.; Pallen, Mark J.
• Is Part Of: Microbial genomics. Volume 2:Issue 9(2016)
• Publication Date: 2016-09
• Subjects: cloud computing -- bioinformatics -- infrastructure -- metagenomics -- population genomics -- virtual laboratory; Microbial genomics -- Periodicals; 572.8629
• DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000086
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2057-5858

Abstract

Abstract : The increasing availability and decreasing cost of high-throughput sequencing has transformed academic medical microbiology, delivering an explosion in available genomes while also driving advances in bioinformatics. However, many microbiologists are unable to exploit the resulting large genomics datasets because they do not have access to relevant computational resources and to an appropriate bioinformatics infrastructure. Here, we present the Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB) facility, a shared computing infrastructure that has been designed from the ground up to provide an environment where microbiologists can share and reuse methods and data.