Bionimbus
Bionimbus provides scalable cloud-based access, management, and analysis of large genomics and phenotypic datasets for genomic research.
Key Features:
- Cloud-based platform: Scalable cloud compute and storage for analysis of large genomics and phenotypic datasets.
- Data commons: Hosts a comprehensive collection of large-scale genomics datasets for centralized data management.
- Scalability: Enables scaling of computational resources according to project demands using cloud infrastructure.
- Cost efficiency: Reduces the need for local hardware and storage by leveraging cloud resources.
Scientific Applications:
- Large-scale genomics and phenotypic analysis: Supports analysis of extensive genomics and phenotypic datasets to enable population-scale studies.
- Data management: Centralizes and manages large-scale genomics datasets within a hosted data commons.
- Collaborative research: Supports collaborative studies across the scientific community by enabling shared computational workflows and datasets in the cloud.
Methodology:
Operates within cloud computing environments, providing scalable compute and hosted data commons for storage and analysis of genomics datasets.
Topics
Details
- Maturity:
- Mature
- Tool Type:
- workflow
- Operating Systems:
- Linux
- Programming Languages:
- Perl
- Added:
- 1/13/2017
- Last Updated:
- 4/15/2021
Operations
Publications
Heath AP, Greenway M, Powell R, Spring J, Suarez R, Hanley D, Bandlamudi C, McNerney ME, White KP, Grossman RL. Bionimbus: a cloud for managing, analyzing and sharing large genomics datasets. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2014;21(6):969-975. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002155. PMID:24464852. PMCID:PMC4215034.