Phoenix: System for implementing private and hybrid cloud for OMIC sciences applications

Computational Quantitative Biology applications like Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics and Systems Biology at large require high computing resources that include both processing and storage. Cloud computing provides dynamically scalable on-demand infrastructure in a virtualised environment for processor intensive and data/storage intensive applications. Users need not own this infrastructure; rather use them as and when needed by paying for these resources in pay-as-you-use model that are generally available as a service over the internet. In this paper we present Phoenix - a middleware system for platform as a service (PaaS). This paper describes Phoenix as a novel system for implementing GenomicsCloud - A Cloud computing solution designed specifically to solve OMIC sciences problems. It comprises of a vast pool of compute, storage and application infrastructure for processing the data generated by next generation sequencers (NGS).