title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Protein Research, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Thilo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Muth
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peters
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blackburn
authors.forename: Erdmann
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rapp
authors.forename: Lennart
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martens
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software
keywords: Bioinformatics; Cloud computing; MS; MS/MS; Mass spectrometry; Proteomics; Search algorithms; mass spectrometry; tandem mass spectrometry