CHORUS PROJECT

Chorus is a new cloud application that provides scientists with the ability to securely store, analyze and share their MS data regardless of the original raw file format. The goal of Chorus is to create a complete catalogue of the world's mass spectrometric data that can be openly accessed by, and freely accessible to, the global scientific community as well as the general public. Chorus will be invaluable to scientists in all fields that rely on mass spectrometry as a tool for answering the questions: "What is it and how much is there?"... Chorus is enabled by Amazon Web Services, Inc. a global cloud based computing environment that includes the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and the Amazon extremely low cost storage service (Amazon Glacier). Chorus provides custom built data analysis tools that convert proprietary data formats to a common MAP Reduce format for processing large data sets with a parallel and distributed algorithms..