On the Challenges of Executing Bioinformatic Tools Using a Distributed Cloud Platform

The BioCloud project is an expansive and complex project involving platforms and tools from areas of file storage, containerization, and server hosting. Not the least complex of all of these systems are those used in the handing of the many bioinformatic scripts and tools needed to ensure BioCloud is a service worth the effort. This paper will dive into the design and methods that allow BioCloud to support a large number of tools, to simplify the process of adding additional tools and editing existing scripts, and to be flexible enough to support the bioinformatic script no matter its needs.