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Introduction: Cloud resources can free domain scientists from having to maintain high performance computing infrastructure, opening up significant new possibilities for sharing and distributing scientific applications. The goal of this work is to leverage the benefits of clouds to share biomedical software with a wide community of researchers in a costeffective manner.

From a scientific standpoint, the goal of the presented work is to address issues which hamper the exploitation of clouds in support of medical research, specifically within the context of the VPH community. Thus, the objectives include detailed analysis of medical applications (their special requirements with regard to data security and curation), designing a suitable platform, enabling medical application services to be shared in a controlled way and performing assessment of the system.