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Enis Afgan
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 75
Citations - 6420
Enis Afgan is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cloud computing & Grid computing. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 73 publications receiving 4585 citations. Previous affiliations of Enis Afgan include University of Alabama at Birmingham & Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative.
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Galaxy cluster to cloud - genomics at scale
TL;DR: The ongoing efforts in creating a ubiquitous platform capable of simultaneously utilizing dedicated as well as on-demand cloud resources are described.
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Bio-Docklets: Virtualization Containers for Single-Step Execution of NGS Pipelines
TL;DR: The goal of the approach is to enable easy access to NGS data analysis pipelines for nonbioinformatics experts, on any computing environment whether a laboratory workstation, university computer cluster, or a cloud service provider.
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Application Information Services for distributed computing environments
TL;DR: A set of core grid services are presented, collectively called Application Information Services (AIS), that provide means to capture and retrieve application-specific information that fosters information sharing and enables advanced application execution models and tools to be developed at the level of the grid.
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Using Galaxy to Perform Large-Scale Interactive Data Analyses—An Update
Alexander Ostrovsky,Jennifer Hillman-Jackson,Dave Bouvier,Dave Clements,Enis Afgan,Daniel Blankenberg,Michael C. Schatz,Anton Nekrutenko,James Taylor,Delphine Larivière +9 more
TL;DR: Galaxy as mentioned in this paper provides access to computational biology tools in a web-based interface, allowing private data to be combined with public datasets, and demonstrates how to employ Galaxy to perform biologically relevant analyses on publicly available datasets.
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Experiences with developing and deploying dynamic BLAST
Enis Afgan,Purushotham Bangalore +1 more
TL;DR: Adapting BLAST to execute on the grid brings up concerns regarding grid resource heterogeneity, which inevitably cause difficulty with application availability, fault tolerance, interoperability, and variability in performance of individual segments that are being distributed throughout grid resources.