Blast With Amazon Ec2

Question

[Stephen]

Does anyone have any experience running BLAST with a local blast database on Cloud Bio-Linux through the Amazon EC2 infrastructure?

I would love to hear how it turns out and is it worth the cost?

Answer 1

[Lee Katz]

The Clovr paper has a really excellent analysis of this exact topic:

CloVR: A virtual machine for automated and portable sequence analysis from the desktop using cloud computing BMC Bioinformatics, 2011

[Lee Katz]

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/356

Just a really quick overview makes it look like Figure 9, but you might have more time to look through it than I do right now.