ProteoCloud: a full-featured open source proteomics cloud computing pipeline

Abstract

We here present the ProteoCloud pipeline, a freely available, full-featured cloud-based platform to perform computationally intensive, exhaustive searches in a cloud environment using five different peptide identification algorithms. ProteoCloud is entirely open source, and is built around an easy to use and cross-platform software client with a rich graphical user interface. This client allows full control of the number of cloud instances to initiate and of the spectra to assign for identification. It also enables the user to track progress, and to visualize and interpret the results in detail. Source code, binaries and documentation are all available at http://proteocloud.googlecode.com.

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Cloud computing; MS; MS/MS; Mass spectrometry; Proteomics; Search algorithms; mass spectrometry; tandem mass spectrometry.