Published at the 9th Gateway Computing Environments Workshop, the paper "Galaxy Cluster to Cloud- Genomics at Scale" describes the spectacular success of the Galaxy application and presents a blueprint for the next step in terms of the computational infrastructure support: a federated execution model of the application to accommodate the increasing demand.
The onslaught of Big Data tools and technologies that address various aspects of the data analysis problem can easily cause confusion for a newcomer to this space. Paper "Deciphering Big Data Stacks: An Overview of Big Data Tools" sheds some light on the function and classification of the current Big Data tools and technologies as well as how to compose those into purposeful software stacks.