Cloud Computing w.r.t. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure

Question

[Saurabh]

Hello!! I need help regarding cloud computing. I need to know what are the databases, tools present in AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure?. I need to know how the bioinformatics analysis done on these cloud?. Thanks!!

[e.r.zakiev]

do you want to host there your own tool? If not, why not try Galaxy? It's the online bioinformatics platform that you are probably looking for

[Saurabh]

I need information regarding those cloud platforms. Yes Galaxy is there but I need to show the difference.

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

This is an open ended broad question that is going to be difficult to concisely answer.

All cloud providers at a minimum provide infrastructure (virtual machines, clusters, networking, storage) that you can use for doing any analysis you normally do on local hardware. You are basically renting the hardware for a certain amount of time and paying for that rental.

As for genomic data hosted on cloud storage there are examples from AWS: https://registry.opendata.aws/tag/genomic/ Google has similar datasets available: https://cloud.google.com/life-sciences/docs/resources/public-datasets NCBI supports using BLAST in a cloud environment: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/doc/blast-help/cloudblast.html

Then there are commercial providers (like DNANexus) that provide analysis tools using the cloud but abstracting the cloud complexities from the end user.

[Saurabh]

Thanks for sharing. Can I get information regarding DNANexus and what kind of tools thus aws, google cloud and microsoft azure used for bioinformatics analysis? Thanks