Cloud-native Hello World for Bioinformatics

Lynn Langit
5 min readFeb 12, 2020

PART FIVE — Implementing scalable workflows on the public cloud with Terra

In part one, I presented the general rationale for building quick start examples (or ‘Hello World’) for bioinformatics tools.

In part two, I reviewed one such example for the CSIRO Bioinformatics VariantSpark library, runnable via smart templates in the AWS Marketplace.

In part three, I covered how to convert a locally runnable example to a reusable cloud example, by working with Google Cloud Platform custom Virtual Machine images…

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