Design of the MCAW compute service for food safety bioinformatics.

The techniques of microbe community genome sequencing as applied to environmental samples—metagenomics—offer powerful insight into microbial community structure and ecology that can affect food safety decisions for public health security. In this paper, the design and characteristics of a new informatics service, the Metagenomics Computation and Analytics Workbench (MCAW), are presented and illust...