J Grid Computing DOI 10.1007/s10723-013-9260-9 Managing and Optimizing Bioinformatics Workflows for Data Analysis in Clouds

Abstract

Abstract The rapid advancements in recent years of high-throughput technologies in the life sciences are facilitating the generation and storage of huge amount of data in different databases. Despite significant developments in computing capacity and performance, an analysis of these large-scale data in a search for biomedical relevant patterns remains a challenging task. Scientific workflow applications are deemed to support data-mining in more complex scenarios that include many data sources and computational tools