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. 2011 Nov 8;29(11):972-4.
doi: 10.1038/nbt.2028.

Harnessing cloud computing with Galaxy Cloud

Harnessing cloud computing with Galaxy Cloud

Enis Afgan et al. Nat Biotechnol. .
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Overview of Galaxy instances running on cloud resources: (A) Users in different labs access a dedicated Galaxy instance over the internet with nothing more than a web browser, (B) these Galaxy instances appear to the users to be dedicated infrastructure with apparently infinite compute and storage resources, but are in fact virtual resources (C) which Galaxy's autoscaling acquires and releases on demand in response to changing workloads.

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