Title
A secure cloud-edges computing architecture for metagenomics analysis
Abstract
Portable sequencing machines, such as the Oxford Nanopore MinION, are making the genome sequencing ubiquitous. Consequently, metagenomic studies are becoming increasingly popular, yielding important insights into microbial communities covering diverse environments from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. Furthermore, the adoption of low-power IoT computing devices represents a feasible way of distributing and managing those machines on the field. However, a key issue is represented by the huge amount of data produced during operations, whose management is actually challenging considering the resources required for an efficient data transfer and processing. In order to deal with such a challenge, this paper put forward a novel architecture based on the coupling of Edge and Cloud computing paradigms. The focus of the paper is the Edge layer, responsible for the dynamic management of the full analysis pipeline of IoT devices producing large datasets like the MinION ones while adopting proper security mechanisms that handle the authentication of on-field devices and the confidentiality of the transmitted data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.future.2019.09.013
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Edge computing,Cloud computing,Trusted cloud-edges computations,Metagenomics,Internet of Things
Journal
111
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-739X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Verderame17710.58
Ivan Merelli229435.36
Lucia Morganti3175.02
Elena Corni4103.65
Daniele Cesini5309.51
Daniele D'Agostino613023.39
Alessio Merlo730336.17