There’s a good chance that by now, many of you have heard of “cloud computing.” You might have even read the recent news about the project carried out by the Maine INBRE Bioinformatics Core under the auspices of the NIH Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative.
So what is cloud computing? In an uncharacteristic burst of brevity (for me), I’m going to give you the answer quickly, and then you can keep reading if you want more details …