Benchmarking undedicated cloud computing providers for analysis of genomic datasets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Yazar, Seyhan ^a   Gooden, George E C ^a   Mackey, David A ^a,b   Hewitt, Alex W ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; GENETICS; GENOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BENCHMARKING; CLOUD COMPUTING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATASETS AS TOPIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84907478704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108490     Document Type: Article

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