The case for cloud computing in genome informatics

Genome Biol. 2010;11(5):207. doi: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-207. Epub 2010 May 5.

Abstract

With DNA sequencing now getting cheaper more quickly than data storage or computation, the time may have come for genome informatics to migrate to the cloud.

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology / economics
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Genome, Human / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / economics
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*