August 11, 2011
This tutorial will explain the basic concepts of cloud computing and get you up and running in minutes. No knowledge of system administration or programming is necessary. As an example, it describes how to launch your own instance of the model organism database WormBase. Introduction to cloud computing If you aren’t familiar with cloud computing [...]
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February 10, 2011
Amazon’s Web Services offers enormous potential for people who need to process, store, and share large amounts of data. And it’s a huge boon for bioinformatics. It’s cost effective and it’s fasta. Hah. Get it? It’s “>fasta”. Archiving and sharing data has never been easier. Here’s a quick tutorial on creating an Elastic Block Store [...]
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