APRICOT: Advanced Platform for Reproducible Infrastructures in the Cloud via Open Tools

Vicent Giménez-Alventosa, José Damián Segrelles, Germán Moltó, and Mar Roca-Sogorb. APRICOT: Advanced Platform for Reproducible Infrastructures in the Cloud via Open Tools. Methods of Information in Medicine, 59:e33–e45, 12 2020.

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Abstract

Background Scientific publications are meant to exchange knowledge among researchers but the inability to properly reproduce computational experiments limits the quality of scientific research. Furthermore, bibliography shows that irreproducible preclinical research exceeds 50%, which produces a huge waste of resources on nonprofitable research at Life Sciences field. As a consequence, scientific reproducibility is being fostered to promote Open Science through open databases and software tools that are typically deployed on existing computational resources. However, some computational experiments require complex virtual infrastructures, such as elastic clusters of PCs, that can be dynamically provided from multiple clouds. Obtaining these infrastructures requires not only an infrastructure provider, but also advanced knowledge in the cloud computing field.

BibTeX Entry

@article{Gimenez2020apr,
   abstract = {Background Scientific publications are meant to exchange knowledge among researchers but the inability to properly reproduce computational experiments limits the quality of scientific research. Furthermore, bibliography shows that irreproducible preclinical research exceeds 50%, which produces a huge waste of resources on nonprofitable research at Life Sciences field. As a consequence, scientific reproducibility is being fostered to promote Open Science through open databases and software tools that are typically deployed on existing computational resources. However, some computational experiments require complex virtual infrastructures, such as elastic clusters of PCs, that can be dynamically provided from multiple clouds. Obtaining these infrastructures requires not only an infrastructure provider, but also advanced knowledge in the cloud computing field.},
   author = {Vicent Giménez-Alventosa and José Damián Segrelles and Germán Moltó and Mar Roca-Sogorb},
   doi = {10.1055/s-0040-1712460},
   issn = {0026-1270},
   issue = {S 02},
   journal = {Methods of Information in Medicine},
   month = {12},
   pages = {e33-e45},
   title = {APRICOT: Advanced Platform for Reproducible Infrastructures in the Cloud via Open Tools},
   volume = {59},
   url = {http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0040-1712460},
   year = {2020}
}