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SaaS
Science as a Service
Abner Huang
<abnercyh@cs.nthu.edu.tw>
CSBB Lab., NTHU
Dec. 14, 2011
Figure from GEN News Highlights: Jul 2, 2010
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Science is different
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Science as a service
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Evolution of Biomedical
researchers
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Nature: Milestones in DNA
1977
DNA sequencing
1990
BLAST
2002
UCSC Genome browser
2004
Ensembl
Figure from http://www.nature.com/milestones/miledna/timeline.html
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The Trend of NGS
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS. VOL 11. NO 5. 484 ^ 498
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Illumina's Certified Service
Providers
www.illumina.com/services/cspro.ilmn
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Personal Genome and
Clinical Business
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http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/06/uk-to-sequence-10000-genomes.html
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NHGRI’s New Sequencing Projects
• Genome Sequencing
– Near $85 million in the first year
• Mendelian Disorders
– $12 million per year
• Clinical Exploration
– $10.3 million per year
• Informatics Tools
– $20 million for four years
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http://www.genome.gov/27546261
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The Trend of NGS
ivory.idyll.org/permanent/lstein-ngs-capacity.png
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Challenges for Biomedical
researchers
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Solve It Using Cloud
Computing
http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/5/207
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``Cloud Computing’’ in PubMed
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Biomedical Institutes hug cloud
computing
• J. Craig Venter Institute released JCVI
CLOUD BIO-LINUX
• IBM eX5 Improves Next Generation
Sequencing for Sanger Institute
• ISB made Trans-Proteomic Pipeline
(TPP) on clouds.
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Startup Companies
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Galaxy Cloud
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http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/S12/S4
Galaxy Cloud
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Parallel Algorithms Spectrum
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CloudBurst
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RNAseq Unified Mapper (RUM)
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Myrna
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Contrail
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What’s Next?
• Alternative expression
• Allelic expression
• Structural variation
• Epigenomics
• Metagenomics
• Biological data/text mining
• Hapotype/Hapomap
• K thousand genomes
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NGS economics
Biomedical
Researcher
Instrument
vendors
Sequencing
outsourcing
Analysis
outsourcing
Consultants
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NGS economics
Biomedical
Researcher
Instrument
vendors
Sequencing
outsourcing
Analysis
outsourcing
ODM
Consultants
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NGS economics on clouds
Biomedical
Researcher
Instrument
vendors
Sequencing
outsourcing
Analysis
outsourcing
Fabless
ODM
Consultants
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Voila! RNA-Seq Data Analysis
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IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
PaaS
Platform as a Service
SaaS
Software as a Service
Cloud Service Models for Scientists
www.spoutingshite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/saas_and_cloud_computing.ppt
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Eating your own dog food
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Science as a service
Service as a science
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Loose coupled interdisciplinary
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Service science and cloud
computing
• HPC on cloud computing of NGS
• Data Transfer Bottlenecks
• Streaming Computing
• Cost of Cloud Storage
• Community Cloud Developing
• App. Exchange of bioinformatics
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THANK YOU
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SaaS: Science as a Service