VMCloud Use Cases

There are various services and projects already using VMCloud. Here are their stories.

BioData

BioData.pt is the Portuguese distributed e-infrastructure for biological data and the Portuguese ELIXIR node.

BioData.pt supports the national scientific system through best practices in data management and state of the art data analysis.

It interfaces with both academia and industry, making research available for innovation, namely in sectors such as agro-food and forestry, sea, and health.

Shuttle

The Shuttle website is used by the Técnico community to book shuttle trips.

This service is one of the many web services developed by the Técnico IT team that is deployed on VMCloud and it uses the multi-region capability of VMCloud to deploy multiple instances that provide load-balancing and redundancy.

ELIXIR’s Galaxy Community

ELIXIR’s Galaxy Community evolved from its Galaxy Working Group, which was established in 2015 to monitor and foster the use of Galaxy in ELIXIR. The overall goal of the community is to build on the achievements of the Working Group and to foster the Galaxy community, to make it easier to import data into Galaxy instances, to help develop and share Galaxy tools and workflows, and to increase the provision of Galaxy training.

Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biomedical research.

Among other important research it is used to analyse and publish SARS-CoV2 data during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.