Facilitating Bioinformatic Research With Mobile Cloud

In this paper, we propose a concept of mobile-cloud by combining mobile and cloud together in a bioinformatic research application scenario. A mobile-cloud framework is developed, which facilitates the use of mobile devices to manipulate and interact with the scientific workflows running in the Cloud. In this framework, an independent trusted accountability service is used to provide data provenance and enforce compliance among the participants of a bioinformatic workflow. We have implemented a prototype which allows the bioinformatic workflow design and participation using mobile devices. We prove the concept of mobile-cloud with the prototype and conducted performance evaluation for the significant points of the bioinformatic workflow.