Hadoopizer : a cloud environment for bio-informatics data analysis

Biology is evolving into a big data science, particularly with the new sequencing technologies which have emerged during the last years. Cloud computing appears as one of the answers to face the rapidly increasing volume of bioinformatics data. Here we present a private cloud environment deployed on the GenOuest bioinformatics platform. After an overview of the software publicly available for bioinformatics treatments in the cloud, we present a new framework (Hadoopizer) which is a generic tool for the parallelisation of bioinformatics analysis in the cloud using the MapReduce paradigm. These developments are available online at this address: http://genocloud.genouest.org