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Server to host bam files

I am looking for a free (or relatively inexpensive) public server to host a few bam files that I would like to view in an online genome browser. I don't expect these bam files to be big so storage space is not much of a concern.

I have seen this note by the folks at UCSC Genome Browser. I could not get CyVerse working. FigShare is not really an option for me as I expect these files to change. Finally, GitHub was an option but I could not figure out how, for a bam file, the browser can find the path for the index.

Is there a public server that you use for something like this?

rna-seq alignment bam
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written by vkkodali_ncbi vkkodali_ncbi

Depending on how big your BAM files are could you not use AWS/Google compute to host the files. You may be able to use a free VM but will need to pay for storage.

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written by GenoMax GenoMax

That's what I was thinking too... I don't expect my files to be big (100Mb at most) . Based on Google's bucket pricing it may end up being as low as a couple of dollars every month.

I'd still be interested to know if there are other options out there.

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written by vkkodali_ncbi vkkodali_ncbi

Thanks, I learned something new! For now, I created a storage bucket on AWS with the infrequent access option as it appeared to be more cost effective than GCP storage. I will keep exploring.

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written by vkkodali_ncbi vkkodali_ncbi

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