Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
23
COLLABORATIVE- BASED
BIOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS
BRIAN D. HALLIGAN
23.1
Introduction 387
23.2
Cloud Computing Resources 390
23.2.1
Amazon Web Services (AWS) 391
23.2.2
Other Cloud Computing Resources 393
23.3
Examples of Bioinformatics Cloud Computing Resources 393
23.3.1
Proteomics 393
23.3.2
Other Bioinformatics Tools 395
23.3.3
Next - Generation DNA Sequencing 395
23.4
Summary 396
References 397
23.1
INTRODUCTION
Until recently, most computing was done with local resources. Users ran appli-
cations on their desktop computer and stored fi les on this computer or on a
server in a machine room nearby. There has been a shift to a paradigm in which
users, instead of doing computing locally, use their desktop computer as a
client to access resources outside their offi ce or even institution. Often users
have no idea where the computer running their application or their data is
physically located, so it can be thought of being up in the clouds somewhere.
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