Laniakea

Laniakea deploys and manages on-demand Galaxy instances on public and private cloud infrastructures to provide customizable and secure computational environments for bioinformatics workflows and analyses.

Key Features:

• Administrative Control: Users obtain full administrative privileges on private Galaxy instances enabling data privacy, customization, job prioritization, tool development, and training activities.
• Cloud Infrastructure Support: Supports deployment across public and private e-infrastructures and common cloud architectures.
• Deployment Modes: Enables single-server or cluster-backed Galaxy instances for scalable and robust workflow execution.
• Data Management and Security: Provides data volume encryption and sharing of reference data across multiple instances.
• Deployment Technologies: Supports VM image-based, Docker-based, and Ansible recipe-based Galaxy deployments.
• Automation: Automates provisioning and orchestration of virtual hardware and software components for Galaxy instances.
• Integration: Leverages the INDIGO-DataCloud software stack for deployment and management operations.

Scientific Applications:

• Customized Galaxy environments: Enables project-specific toolsets and configurations when public Galaxy instances are insufficient.
• Privacy-sensitive and clinical research: Supports enhanced data privacy requirements for clinical and sensitive datasets.
• Food safety: Has been applied in use cases within food safety research requiring tailored analysis environments.
• Laniakea@ReCaS deployment: The ELIXIR-IT Laniakea@ReCaS installation provides approximately 18 Galaxy on-demand virtual servers with ~100 CPUs, ~250 GB RAM, and ~5 TB storage for research projects.

Methodology:

Automated provisioning of virtual hardware and software components using the INDIGO-DataCloud software stack, implemented via VM images, Docker containers, and Ansible recipes.