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PhenoMeNal: processing and analysis of metabolomics data in the cloud

Authors :
Peters, Kristian
Bradbury, James
Bergmann, Sven
Capuccini, Marco
Cascante i Serratosa, Marta
Atauri Carulla, Ramón de
Ebbels, Timothy M.D.
Foguet Coll, Carles
Glen, Robert
Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra
Günther, Ulrich L.
Handakas, Evangelos
Hankemeier, Thomas
Haug, Kenneth
Herman, Stephanie
Holub, Petr
Izzo, Massimialiano
Jacob, Daniel
Johnson, David
Jourdan, Fabien
Kale, Namrata
Karaman, Ibrahim
Khalili, Bita
Emami Khonsari, Payam
Kultima, Kim
Lampa, Samuel
Larsson, Aanders
Ludwig, Christian
Moreno, Pablo
Neumann, Steffen
Novella, Jon Ander
O'Donovan, Claire
Pearce, Jake T.M.
Peluso, Alina
Piras, Marco Enrico
Pireddu, Luca
Reed, Michelle A. C.
Rocca-Serra, Philippe
Roger, Pierrick
Rosato, Antonio
Universitat de Barcelona
Source :
Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya, instname, Dipòsit Digital de la UB, Universidad de Barcelona
Publisher :
Oxford University Press

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Metabolomics is the comprehensive study of a multitude of small molecules to gain insight into an organism's metabolism. The research field is dynamic and expanding with applications across biomedical, biotechnological, and many other applied biological domains. Its computationally intensive nature has driven requirements for open data formats, data repositories, and data analysis tools. However, the rapid progress has resulted in a mosaic of independent, and sometimes incompatible, analysis methods that are difficult to connect into a useful and complete data analysis solution. FINDINGS: PhenoMeNal (Phenome and Metabolome aNalysis) is an advanced and complete solution to set up Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) that brings workflow-oriented, interoperable metabolomics data analysis platforms into the cloud. PhenoMeNal seamlessly integrates a wide array of existing open-source tools that are tested and packaged as Docker containers through the project's continuous integration process and deployed based on a kubernetes orchestration framework. It also provides a number of standardized, automated, and published analysis workflows in the user interfaces Galaxy, Jupyter, Luigi, and Pachyderm. CONCLUSIONS: PhenoMeNal constitutes a keystone solution in cloud e-infrastructures available for metabolomics. PhenoMeNal is a unique and complete solution for setting up cloud e-infrastructures through easy-to-use web interfaces that can be scaled to any custom public and private cloud environment. By harmonizing and automating software installation and configuration and through ready-to-use scientific workflow user interfaces, PhenoMeNal has succeeded in providing scientists with workflow-driven, reproducible, and shareable metabolomics data analysis platforms that are interfaced through standard data formats, representative datasets, versioned, and have been tested for reproducibility and interoperability. The elastic implementation of PhenoMeNal further allows easy adaptation of the infrastructure to other application areas and 'omics research domains.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya, instname, Dipòsit Digital de la UB, Universidad de Barcelona
Accession number :
edsair.dedup.wf.001..8182e0b462c00f44c90a286f8ca6cf06