Review Article Enabling Large-Scale Biomedical Analysis in the Cloud

Copyright © 2013 Ying-Chih Lin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Recent progress in high-throughput instrumentations has led to an astonishing growth in both volume and complexity of biomedical data collected from various sources. The planet-size data brings serious challenges to the storage and computing technologies. Cloud computing is an alternative to crack the nut because it gives concurrent consideration to enable storage and high-performance computing on large-scale data.Thiswork briefly introduces the data intensive computing systemand summarizes existing cloud-based resources in bioinformatics.These developments and applicationswould facilitate biomedical research tomake the vast amount of diversification data meaningful and usable. 1