Discovery Environment

Discovery Environment provides containerized implementations of bioinformatics methods for expression data and promoter analysis and enables their execution on public cloud computing services.

Key Features:

• Integration of methods: Incorporates 14 widely used bioinformatics methods focused on expression data and promoter analysis.
• Docker containerization: Encapsulates each method within Docker containers to manage dependencies and isolate execution environments.
• Cloud execution: Executes containerized methods using public cloud computing services.
• Optimized implementations: Selects and refines implementations of established tools for improved performance and reliability.
• CyVerse integration: Packaged for execution within the CyVerse Discovery Environment.

Scientific Applications:

• Expression and promoter analysis: Standardized implementations support processing and analysis of expression data and promoter features.
• Genomic and biological studies: Applicable to basic biological investigations and advanced genomic analyses that require reproducible expression and promoter workflows.

Methodology:

Selects well-regarded bioinformatics tools, optimizes their implementations for performance and reliability, and packages them within Docker containers for execution on public cloud computing services.