Computing infrastructure for bioinformatics web services

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Bioinformatics is the area of computer science that aims at solving computational problems linked to the analysis of molecular biology data. Our group has a long track record of developing new algorithmic and machine learning approaches for the annotation of genomes, the comparison of sequences across species, and the prediction of structure from sequence. It also has developed several databases that are highly popular in the field. To maximize the impact of the approaches developed, tools must be made available via easy-to-use web services where biologists can upload data for analysis and get back detailed results without having to install any software on their own machine. Our group has made concerted efforts to build such web tools over the course of the past few years. However the computing servers on which these web services are running are insufficient to answer the demand, which prevents us from releasing new tools and from giving unrestricted access to existing ones.