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ArticleGigaScience2020

Laniakea: an open solution to provide Galaxy "on-demand" instances over heterogeneous cloud infrastructures.

Marco Antonio Tangaro, Giacinto Donvito, Marica Antonacci, Matteo Chiara, Pietro Mandreoli, Graziano Pesole, Federico Zambelli

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Article in GigaScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. GalaxyCloudRunner: enhancing scalable computing for Galaxy.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2021
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  6. Cloud Computing Enabled Big Multi-Omics Data Analytics.Bioinformatics and biology insights · 2021
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Marco Antonio TangaroInstitute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, National Research Council (CNR), Via Giovanni Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Giacinto DonvitoNational Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Section of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Marica AntonacciNational Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Section of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Matteo ChiaraDepartment of Biosciences, University of Milan, via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Pietro MandreoliInstitute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, National Research Council (CNR), Via Giovanni Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Graziano PesoleInstitute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, National Research Council (CNR), Via Giovanni Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Federico ZambelliInstitute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, National Research Council (CNR), Via Giovanni Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWhile the popular workflow manager Galaxy is currently made available through several publicly accessible servers, there are scenarios where users can be better served by full administrative control over a private Galaxy instance, including, but not limited to, concerns about data privacy, customisation needs, prioritisation of particular job types, tools development, and training activities. In such cases, a cloud-based Galaxy virtual instance represents an alternative that equips the user with complete control over the Galaxy instance itself without the burden of the hardware and software infrastructure involved in running and maintaining a Galaxy server.

resultsWe present Laniakea, a complete software solution to set up a "Galaxy on-demand" platform as a service. Building on the INDIGO-DataCloud software stack, Laniakea can be deployed over common cloud architectures usually supported both by public and private e-infrastructures. The user interacts with a Laniakea-based service through a simple front-end that allows a general setup of a Galaxy instance, and then Laniakea takes care of the automatic deployment of the virtual hardware and the software components. At the end of the process, the user gains access with full administrative privileges to a private, production-grade, fully customisable, Galaxy virtual instance and to the underlying virtual machine (VM). Laniakea features deployment of single-server or cluster-backed Galaxy instances, sharing of reference data across multiple instances, data volume encryption, and support for VM image-based, Docker-based, and Ansible recipe-based Galaxy deployments. A Laniakea-based Galaxy on-demand service, named Laniakea@ReCaS, is currently hosted at the ELIXIR-IT ReCaS cloud facility.

conclusionsLaniakea offers to scientific e-infrastructures a complete and easy-to-use software solution to provide a Galaxy on-demand service to their users. Laniakea-based cloud services will help in making Galaxy more accessible to a broader user base by removing most of the burdens involved in deploying and running a Galaxy service. In turn, this will facilitate the adoption of Galaxy in scenarios where classic public instances do not represent an optimal solution. Finally, the implementation of Laniakea can be easily adapted and expanded to support different services and platforms beyond Galaxy.

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SoftwareWorkflowCloud ComputingComputational BiologyUser-Computer Interfacecloudgalaxyon-demandPaaSworkflow

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PMCPMC7136032

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