title: CloudMan as a platform for tool, data, and analysis distribution.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cloud computing provides an infrastructure that facilitates large scale computational analysis in a scalable, democratized fashion, However, in this context it is difficult to ensure sharing of an analysis environment and associated data in a scalable and precisely reproducible way.
  
  
  RESULTS
  CloudMan (usecloudman.org) enables individual researchers to easily deploy, customize, and share their entire cloud analysis environment, including data, tools, and configurations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With the enabled customization and sharing of instances, CloudMan can be used as a platform for collaboration. The presented solution improves accessibility of cloud resources, tools, and data to the level of an individual researcher and contributes toward reproducibility and transparency of research solutions.
authors.affiliation: Center for Informatics and Computing (CIR), Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Zagreb, Croatia. enis.afgan@irb.hr
authors.forename: Enis
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Afgan
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chapman
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D012984:Software