Nuwan Goonasekera

GalaxyCloudRunner: enhancing scalable computing for Galaxy.

Nuwan Goonasekera, Alexandru Mahmoud, John Chilton, Enis Afgan

Journal article  |  2021  |  Bioinformatics

SUMMARY: The existence of more than 100 public Galaxy servers with service quotas is indicative of the need for an increased avail..

CloudLaunch: Discover and deploy cloud applications

Enis Afgan, Andrew Lonie, James Taylor, Nuwan Goonasekera

Journal article  |  2019  |  FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ESCIENCE

Cloud computing is a common platform for delivering software to end users. However, the process of making complex-to-deploy applic..

Federated Galaxy: Biomedical Computing at the Frontier

Enis Afgan, Vahid Jalili, Nuwan Goonasekera, James Taylor, Jeremy Goecks

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  PROCEEDINGS 2018 IEEE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING (CLOUD)

Biomedical data exploration requires integrative analyses of large datasets using a diverse ecosystem of tools. For more than a de..

Architectural Models for Deploying and Running Virtual Laboratories in the Cloud

E Afgan, A Lonie, J Taylor, K Skala, N Goonasekera

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  2016 39TH INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, ELECTRONICS AND MICROELECTRONICS (MIPRO)

Running virtual laboratories as software services in cloud computing environments requires numerous technical challenges to be add..

CloudBridge: a Simple Cross-Cloud Python Library

Nuwan Goonasekera, Andrew Lonie, James Taylor, Enis Afgan

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  PROCEEDINGS OF XSEDE16: DIVERSITY, BIG DATA, AND SCIENCE AT SCALE

With clouds becoming a standard target for deploying applications, it is more important than ever to be able to seamlessly utilise..

Genomics Virtual Laboratory: A Practical Bioinformatics Workbench for the Cloud

Enis Afgan, Clare Sloggett, Nuwan Goonasekera, Igor Makunin, Derek Benson, Mark Crowe, Simon Gladman, Yousef Kowsar, Michael Pheasant, Ron Horst, Andrew Lonie

Journal article  |  2015  |  PLOS ONE

BACKGROUND: Analyzing high throughput genomics data is a complex and compute intensive task, generally requiring numerous software..

LibVM: An architecture for shared library sandboxing

N Goonasekera, W Caelli, C Fidge

Journal article  |  2015  |  Software - Practice and Experience

Summary Many software applications extend their functionality by dynamically loading libraries into their allocated address space...

Building and Provisioning Bioinformatics Environments on Public and Private Clouds

Enis Afgan, Konstantinos Krampis, Nuwan Goonasekera, Karolj Skala, James Taylor

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  2015 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, ELECTRONICS AND MICROELECTRONICS (MIPRO)

Unlike newly developed web applications that can be designed from the ground up to utilize cloud APIs and run natively within clou..

BioBlend: automating pipeline analyses within Galaxy and CloudMan

Clare Sloggett, Nuwan Goonasekera, Enis Afgan

Journal article  |  2013  |  BIOINFORMATICS

UNLABELLED: We present BioBlend, a unified API in a high-level language (python) that wraps the functionality of Galaxy and CloudM..

A hardware virtualization based component sandboxing architecture

N Goonasekera, W Caelli, C Fidge

Journal article  |  2012  |  Journal of Software

Modern applications comprise multiple components, such as browser plug-ins, often of unknown provenance and quality. Statistics sh..