User Centric Genomics Infrastructure: trends and technologies

Genomics is both data and compute intensive discipline. The success of genomics depends on adequate informatics infrastructure that can address growing data demands and enable a diverse range of resource-intensive computational activities. Designing a suitable Infrastructure is a challenging task, and its success largely depends on adoption by its users. In this article we take a user centric view of the genomics, where users are Bioinformaticians, Computational Biologists, and Data Scientists. We try to take their point of view on how traditional computational activities for genomics are expanding due to data growth, and introduction of Big Data and Cloud technologies. The changing landscape of computational activities and new user requirements will influence the design of future genomics infrastructures.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author