This talk was presented at Super Computing '09 in the Cloud Computing for Systems and Computational Biology workshop. It describes the proteomics analysis package we built using Amazon's cloud computing architecture. More information in our paper in J. Proteome Research
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr800970z
9. OK, more computers might be better... but... we dont have the money! we dont have an IT guy/gal we dont have a sysadmin we dont know how to install a cluster we wont use it all the time
Internally we now utilize a hybrid solution – Sequest and mascot running on local clusters, X!Tandem and OMSSA are run on AWS. Raw data can be sent to any and all of these algorithms through an integrated workflow system