Background: Cloud computing provides an infrastructure that facilitates large scale computational analysis in a scalable, democratized fashion, However, in this context it is difficult to ensure sharing of an analysis environment and associated data in a scalable and precisely reproducible way.Results: CloudMan (usecloudman.org) enables individual researchers to easily deploy, customize, and share their entire cloud analysis environment, including data, tools, and configurations.Conclusions: With the enabled customization and sharing of instances, CloudMan can be used as a platform for collaboration. The presented solution improves accessibility of cloud resources, tools, and data to the level of an individual researcher and contributes toward reproducibility and transparency of research solutions. © 2012 Afgan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Afgan, E., Chapman, B., & Taylor, J. (2012). CloudMan as a platform for tool, data, and analysis distribution. BMC Bioinformatics, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-13-315
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