One challenge in harnessing Cloud computing is IT related i.e., installation and testing of bioinformatics tools.
The situation is compounded by the fact that there is no common platform/language/library/API, bioinformatics software developers stick to.
In hindsight it would time-saving to have all these tools available pre-installed and tested for Cloud computing.
Objectives:
Remarks:
The tools are to be tested after installation. The cloud-volumes have tools broadly grouped according to analysis tasks e.g., Prokaryotic assembly, Prokaryotic annotation tools, Assembly improvement tools, RNA seq analysis, Metagenomic pipelines. Some degree of redundany of tools in different volumes is expected. The user raw data can be stored in Amazon S3 bucket or a cloud-volume.
Current Status:
I have created bootable Cloud Volume with tools for Prokaryotic assembly (Soap Denovo, a5-2014 pipeline, MaSuRCA, SPAdes). In process of creating volume for Prokaryotic annotation tools and assembly improvement tools. Next would be RNA seq analysis and Metagenomic pipelines.
Technical Information:
OS : Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit
Questions:
Is this effort something that users(community) would find useful ?
The situation is compounded by the fact that there is no common platform/language/library/API, bioinformatics software developers stick to.
In hindsight it would time-saving to have all these tools available pre-installed and tested for Cloud computing.
Objectives:
- Creation of bootable cloud-volumes (Amazon:EBS & Google: Disk) with Bioinfomatics tools installed
- Periodic upgrade of tools and Operating System updates in case of new release
- Easy scalability options for tools that support up-scaling
- Documentation for Usage, Security, Scaling up and a mailing list
Remarks:
The tools are to be tested after installation. The cloud-volumes have tools broadly grouped according to analysis tasks e.g., Prokaryotic assembly, Prokaryotic annotation tools, Assembly improvement tools, RNA seq analysis, Metagenomic pipelines. Some degree of redundany of tools in different volumes is expected. The user raw data can be stored in Amazon S3 bucket or a cloud-volume.
Current Status:
I have created bootable Cloud Volume with tools for Prokaryotic assembly (Soap Denovo, a5-2014 pipeline, MaSuRCA, SPAdes). In process of creating volume for Prokaryotic annotation tools and assembly improvement tools. Next would be RNA seq analysis and Metagenomic pipelines.
Technical Information:
OS : Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit
Questions:
Is this effort something that users(community) would find useful ?
Comment