Technological advancements have given us the ability to sequence genomes in great depths, and, consequently, generated an exponential growth in data. National Cancer Institute Cloud Resources (NCICR) [1], formerly the NCI Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilots, were developed with a goal democratizing NCI-generated cancer genomic data and facilitating analysis by co-localizing cloud computing and petabyte-scale data. Based on commercial cloud architectures, the Cloud Resources offer the flexibility for users to utilize tools in the form of Docker containers, and tools can be joined to create workflows described by Common Workflow Language (CWL) or Workflow Description Language (WDL). The application of the Cloud Resources has been expanded from cancer genomics to include proteomics, imaging, metagenomics, and analysis involving other types of data in the future. The cloud environment has proven to be a cost-effective, reproducible, reusable, interoperable, and user-friendly alternative to high-performance computing, with minimal overhead and setup requirements. These production-ready and highly scalable platforms represent a necessary step in a publicly available toolset meant to support open and Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) scientific research.
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Tsang, H., & Addepalli, K. (2018). National Cancer Institute Cloud Resources (pp. 707–707). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3233547.3233671
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