Bioinformatics on the cloud computing platform Azure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Shanahan, Hugh P ^a   Owen, Anne M ^b   Harrison, Andrew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM AZURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; SOFTWARE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; INTERNET; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84904642470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102642     Document Type: Article

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