Blast With Amazon Ec2

Does anyone have any experience running BLAST with a local blast database on Cloud Bio-Linux through the Amazon EC2 infrastructure?

I would love to hear how it turns out and is it worth the cost?

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updated 12.3 years ago by Biostar

• written 13.8 years ago by Stephen •

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The Clovr paper has a really excellent analysis of this exact topic:

CloVR: A virtual machine for automated and portable sequence analysis from the desktop using cloud computing BMC Bioinformatics, 2011

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updated 13.8 years ago by Istvan Albert

• written 13.8 years ago by Lee Katz

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/356

Just a really quick overview makes it look like Figure 9, but you might have more time to look through it than I do right now.

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written 13.8 years ago by Lee Katz

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