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Cloud computing for genomic data analysis and collaboration
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Next-generation sequencing has made major strides in the past decade. Studies based on large sequencing data sets are growing in number, and public archives for raw sequencing data have been doubling in size every 18 months. Leveraging these data requires researchers to use large-scale computational resources. Cloud computing, a model whereby users rent computers and storage from large data centres, is a solution that is gaining traction in genomics research. Here, we describe how cloud computing is used in genomics for research and large-scale collaborations, and argue that its elasticity, reproducibility and privacy features make it ideally suited for the large-scale reanalysis of publicly available archived data, including privacy-protected data.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Langmead, B., & Nellore, A.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Oregon Health & Science University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Langmead, Ben
- Nellore, Abhinav
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Genetics
- Published
- 2018-01-30
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 208-219
- ISSN
- 1471-0056 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0064
- PMC
- PMC6452449
- OpenAlex
- W2785694006
- Cited by
- 310
- References
- 118
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 11
- FWCI
- 6.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2018-02-12)
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Nature Reviews Genetics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of Chicago
- European Bioinformatics Institute
- National Cancer Institute
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM118568)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Computing and Resource Management
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Keywords
- cloud computing, genomic data analysis, next-generation sequencing, data sharing, international research collaboration, computational resources, data privacy, reproducibility
- MeSH terms
- Cloud Computing, Humans, Computational Biology, Internet, Genomics, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
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