Big Data in Bioinformatics & the Era of Cloud Computing

Abstract

With the recent breakthrough in bioinformatics, demand of more storage space is increasing day by day. With this exponentially increasing data i.e. the big data of bioinformatics sector, the data needs to be handled in more flexible and cost effective manner. With this growth in the volume, variety and velocity of data, cloud computing promises to address big data issues and analysis of challenges of big data in bioinformatics. Big Data of bioinformatics consisting of various sequences (nucleotide or amino acid) which are now showing exponential growth because of high throughput experimental technologies. By the use of various bioinformatics tools demands for large and fast data storage technology is increasing. In this paper, security model is re- drafted for flexible use of model by consumers and various cloud based services and techniques are coined up to make an easy approach for implementing big data of bioinformatics using cloud.