Genomics Virtual Laboratory: A Practical Bioinformatics Workbench for the Cloud
Fig 5
Architectural components of the GVL’s management layer.
Each GVL instance is, at runtime, composed of a number of components that the GVL provides: a virtual machine image, a volume snapshot or an archive of the tools file system, and a snapshot or a hosted instance of the indices file system. Combined at runtime by CloudMan into a virtual cluster, the components enable a flexible and feature-full bioinformatics workbench.