Enabling Large-Scale Biomedical Analysis in the Cloud. (31st October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lin, Ying-Chih; Yu, Chin-Sheng; Lin, Yen-Jen
• Other Names: Lin Chun-Yuan Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: BioMed research international. Volume 2013(2013)
• Publication Date: 2013-10-31
• Subjects: Medicine -- Periodicals; Biology -- Periodicals; Biotechnology -- Periodicals; Life sciences -- Periodicals; 610.5
• DOI: 10.1155/2013/185679
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2314-6133

Abstract

Abstract : 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.