Design Of A Generic Architecture For Executing Bioinformatics Workflows On Distributed Infrastructures

The exponential increase of biological data as a result of improvements on Next Generation Sequencers has revealed the need of powerful hardware that can cope with it. Despite the development of several tools for dealing with this kind of experiments, the main problem of almost all of them is the lack of scalability. In order to address it, this article exposes the design of Bio-WINGS (Bioinformatics Workflows in Next Generation Sequencing), a powerful system that will support a lot of bioinformatics applications over different flavours of distributed computing infrastructures.