Cloud BioLinux: Pre-configured and on-demand bioinformatics computing for the genomics community

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Krampis, Konstantinos ^a   Booth, Tim ^b   Chapman, Brad ^c   Tiwari, Bela ^d   Bicak, Mesude ^b   Field, Dawn ^b   Nelson, Karen E ^a  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d CLC Bio ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; GRAPHICAL SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TOOLS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EUCALYPTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; COMPUTERS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84858330364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-42     Document Type: Article

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