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Success Stories: How Cloud Computing Has Enabled Breakthroughs in Science

shashank

@shashank

November 27, 2024

Cloud Computing NASSCOM Cloud Summit 2021

Over the last twenty years, Cloud computing has transformed how science works. Easy to scale, cheaper, and widely accessible, the cloud has become an essential tool in a bunch of disciplines in science. Cloud informs science across the spectrum, from fast-forwarding drug development to solving the universe's workings. The focus of this article is to review success stories showing how cloud computing has positively impacted on achievements of science.

1. Mapping the Human Genome

The Human Genome Project was achieved in 2003. The work has been done for 13 years, and 249 different countries participated in it; it cost $2.7 billion. At present, cloud computing makes it possible for researchers to sequence a human genome for less than $1,000 in days.

Big data platforms such as AWS and Google Cloud serve the ability needed to compute big data genomics. By providing cloud support to the difficult to compute analyses such as the Broad Institute’s Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK), enhanced efficiency and optimized genome analysis can be achieved. This real-time analysis capacity allows for the prescription of custom medications and treatments based on a patient’s genetic marker of diseases.

2. Combating Global Pandemics

The nature of the COVID-19 pandemic shed light on the importance of cloud computing in organizing vaccine research and treatment approaches. Real-time work in cloud-based applications provided opportunities for international cooperation, which enabled researchers to exchange data and models. For instance, Moderna-one of the first pharmaceutical firms to produce a COVID-19 vaccine-mainly used cloud infrastructure to develop and test mRNA constructs.

Likewise, Big Data for analyzing mass data from genomic sequencing, epidemiological studies, and clinical trials was performed with Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. It powers up computational processes to quickly detect different variants of the virus and the subsequent creation of efficient remedies against them.

3. Advancing Climate Science

Climate change is one of the most significant concerns of the present as it demands computational analysis of vast amounts of data for prediction and risk assessment. Another revolution is the leading role of cloud computing, where researchers can perform complex climate models that have not been possible locally due to computation issues.

For example, NASA employed the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) in the environment of the cloud in storing and handling data from satellites. This system facilitates studies regarding polar ice melt, deforestation, and so on. Cloud resources are very elastic; because of this, researchers can mimic proper climate systems, resulting in better prediction and policymaking.

4. Exploring Unknowns of the Cosmos

Cloud computing has been beneficial to astrophysics, especially when dealing with results and data from telescopes and space missions. Current developments such as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) which imaged a black hole for the first time also used CCP to compile and process Petabytes of data collected by telescopes from across the world.

Google Cloud and AWS have also powered astronomical surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), through which researchers can categorize detailed information of hundreds of millions of celestial entities. These insights are revolutionizing studies of the universe and its composition or formation, ranging from dark matter to galaxies.

5. Accelerating Drug Discovery

Finding new drugs and therapies is a slow and costly business, for it can take ten years and up to $2.5 billion to commercialize a new compound. Cloud computing has revolutionized these steps by providing means of using state-of-the-art computational methods, including molecular modeling and artificial intelligence simulations.

For example, large tech-based enterprises such as Atomwise apply cloud-based AI to estimate the behavior of molecules, which saves tremendous time in the selection of potential drugs. In the initial part of the coronavirus outbreak, cloud solutions provided effective support in the screening of millions of compounds to help find therapeutic agents.

6. Revolutionizing Agriculture

However, implementing the use of cloud computing in science has its set of risks. You will find that there are still issues related to the privacy and security of data, especially in the health and Genomic areas. Also, the cost of cloud services may reach unreasonable amounts in the case of long-term projects if it is not regulated.

Quantum computing and edge computing are the future of cloud technology, and they are expected to open new worlds to science as well. These could allow for continuous processing of big data, whether it’s the climate system of the world or the baseline of the human mind.

7. Empowering Citizen Science

In the same way, it has also empowered scientists by making science a part of cloud computing for the citizens. In applications such as Galaxy Zoo or Zooniverse, the volunteers identify features in the galaxies and submit their results to the project leaders, who can analyze the pull data in the hosted cloud environments. The cooperation has provided impacts of discoveries from new planets to endangered kinds of species.

Another similarly significant example is the application of a cloud environment in crowdsourced earthquake detection. MyShake is one example of how citizens collect information through their devices and give researchers a way to model what is happening seismically accurately.

Challenges and Future Directions

Conclusion

Cloud computing has redefined the boundaries of what is possible in science. By providing unprecedented access to computational power, storage, and collaborative tools, it has accelerated breakthroughs in fields ranging from genomics to astrophysics. As technology continues to evolve, cloud computing will undoubtedly play an even more significant role in shaping the future of scientific discovery, empowering researchers to tackle humanity's most significant challenges. For those looking to be part of this transformative journey, cloud computing classes in Pune offer an excellent opportunity to gain the skills needed to contribute to cutting-edge research and innovation.

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