Abstract

Bioinformatics is increasingly a data-driven science. Future success for life scientists will depend upon the ability to leverage the large-scale data. By adopting the advances in information technology made by fields that have already faced the type of inflection point bioinformatics face, such as cloud computing, we believe bioinformatics can weave the computational environments that exist today into a solution for our data problems. In our breakout discussions, we examined the current state of the field, current barriers to research, and concluded with an examination on the role of cloud computing to support bioinformatics research.