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Let's make bcbio a first class citizen of the cloud.

bcbio-nextgen-vm is a companion project to bcbio-nextgen. We want to make the bcbio-nextgen pipeline a first class citizen of the cloud. The effort is a bit nascent. Good time to contribute. If you are looking for production quality and seemless, we are not there, yet.

design decisions/requirements

• It will be common for people to use bcbio-nextgen-vm on their laptop to control their bcbio run in the cloud. [Aside: Historically, people have done the analysis on their laptop. We are moving away from this. ]
• This initial implementation targets AWS. There is strong demand for other cloud providers.
• We assume that connective is fast in the cloud. We understand that the last mile between the laptop and the cloud may be slow. We want to keep the footprint on the laptop small.