As virtualization technologies mature and become ever more widespread, cloud computing
has emerged as a promising paradigm for e-science. In order to facilitate successful …

Recent advances in biological research include experimental techniques that generate very
large datasets. With these advances, there has developed a clear need for ever-increasing …

Background and objective: To address the increasing need for collaborative endeavours
within the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) community, the VPH-Share collaborative …

Biomedical research has become a digital data–intensive endeavor, relying on secure and
scalable computing, storage, and network infrastructure, which has traditionally been …

Biomedical research in the post-genome era is intensely data-driven and increasingly more
integrative as new technologies are introduced, such as next-or third-generation …

This paper presents a software platform to dynamically deploy complex scientific virtual
computing infrastructures, on top of Infrastructure as a Service Clouds. The platform …

Cloud-based service computing has started to change the way how research in science, in
particular biology, medicine, and engineering, is being carried out. Researchers in the area …

Cloud computing has revolutionized the development and operations of hardware and
software across diverse technological arenas, yet academic biomedical research has …

Summary The demand for Information Technology (IT) resources is constantly growing in the
scientific area. The ability to store and process increasing amounts of data has transformed …

As biomedical research data grow, researchers need reliable and scalable solutions for
storage and compute. There is also a need to build systems that encourage and support …