CloVR: A virtual machine for automated and portable sequence analysis from the desktop using cloud computing

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Angiuoli, Samuel V ^a,b   Matalka, Malcolm ^a   Gussman, Aaron ^a   Galens, Kevin ^a   Vangala, Mahesh ^a   Riley, David R ^a   Arze, Cesar ^a   White, James R ^a   White, Owen ^a   Fricke, W Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS; BIOINFORMATICS WORKFLOWS; CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT DATA; LARGE-SCALE SEQUENCES; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ACQUISITION;

AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTERNET;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTERS; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INTERNET; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80052121849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-356     Document Type: Article

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