Bringing your bioinformatics tools to cyverse′s discovery environment using docker

5^th International Conference on Biometrics & Biostatistics

October 20-21, 2016 Houston, USA

Upendra Kumar Devisetty

University of Arizona, USA

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Biom Biostat

Abstract :

CyVerse (formerly iPlant Collaborative) is a life sciences cyberinfrastructure funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The infrastructureâ�?�?s purpose is to scale science, domain expertise, and knowledge by providing a variety of computational tools, services, and platforms for storing, sharing, and analyzing large and diverse biological datasets. The Discovery Environment (DE) in CyVerse provides a modern web interface for running powerful computing, data, and analysis applications. By providing a consistent user interface for accessing tools and computing resources needed for specialized scientific analyses, the DE facilitates data exploration and scientific discovery. DE merges the â�?�?science gatewayâ�? functionality and the bioinformatics â�?�?work benchâ�? with high-performance data management to allow seamless access to reusable computational workflows that can run at very large scales. It is common in bioinformatics to build new analysis methods utilizing multiple programs, libraries, and modules. However, each analysis that uses these tools requires specific versions of the operating system and underlying software. Docker is a container virtualization technology that wraps software of interest (e.g., a bioinformatics tool) together with all its software dependencies so it can run in a reproducible manner regardless of the environment. CyVerse has adopted Docker for integrating software apps that run in the DEâ�?�?s Compute Cluster. The user creates a Dockerfile, which is sent to CyVerse and used to build the Docker image containing the tool. After the image has been deployed on the DEâ�?�?s compute cluster, the user can build an web app in the DE to enable other researches easily use the tool.

Biography :

Upendra Kumar Devisetty earned his PhD from University of Nottingham, UK and completed Post-doctoral studies at the University of California Davis and Oregon State University. He is currently working as Science Informatician at CyVerse, a life sciences cyberinfrastructure funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). He has published more than 10 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has been invited to speak at several international conferences.

Email: upendrakumar.devisetty@googlemail.com