Resources and costs for microbial sequence analysis evaluated using virtual machines and cloud computing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Angiuoli, Samuel V ^a,b   White, James R ^a   Matalka, Malcolm ^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

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; VIRTUAL REALITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECONOMICS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE;

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNET; METAGENOMICS; MICE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80054776462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026624     Document Type: Article

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