Map/reduce approach has been popular in order to compute huge volumes of data since Google implemented its platform on Google distributed File Systems (GFS) and then Amazon Web Service (AWS) provides its services with Apache Hadoop platform. Map/reduce motivates to redesign and convert the existing sequential algorithms to map/reduce algorithms for big data so that ...

Although the web-based bioinformatics is very popular after dozens of years’ growth, biologists found out that it is inconvenient because they need to access many web sites manually in order to perform a single task. Web-service based bioinformatics was proposed to provide well-defined interfaces accessible to programs. However, security for web services is a very ...