The ARES Project: Cloud Services for Medical Genomics

This paper shows the cloud services provided by the project ARES. The network solutions have been illustrated in a companion paper in the same conference. The ARES project aims to deploy CDN services over a broadband network for accessing and exchanging genomic datasets, accessible by medical and research personnel through a Cloud interface. This paper illustrates the procedure defined to access such services, also providing a case-study simulation to show the implementation of the bioinformatics pipeline included. The experimental activity in ARES aims to gain a detailed understanding of the network problems relating to its sustainability given the increasing use of genomics for diagnostic purposes. The main aim is to allow an extensive use of genomic data through the collection of relevant information available from the network in the medical and diagnostic field diseases.