Competitors

Comparison of similar projects: web platforms for distributed scientific computing.

Most Similar

Project	Sponsor	Focus	Backend	> Size	Description
ChRIS	Boston Children's Hospital, RedHat	Neuroimaging	Python, Docker	150 users	That's us!
Galaxy	Penn State, Johns Hopkins, OHSU, Cleveland Clinic	Genomics	Python, XML	120 public instances, 9,500 citations	"web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research" ... "makes advanced computational tools usable by non experts." (Afgan et. al, 2016) slides
CBrain	McGill (Canada)	Neuroimaging	Ruby, Boutiques (Docker)	500 users	Accessing and processing of large data on high-performance computing infrastructures. poster demo
brainlife.io
VIP	INSA Lyon (France)	Neuroimaging	Boutiques (Docker)	750 users	Web portal for medical simulation and image data analysis on the European Grid Infrastructure. poster
Airavata	Apache	General	Java, ???	???	Compose, manage, execute, and monitor large scale applications and workflows on distributed computing resources such as local clusters, supercomputers,computational grids, and computing clouds. demo
Flywheel	Commercial	Medical	Matlab, Python, R	14 universities	Not open source
Terra	Broad Institute	Genetics	Jupyter Notebook		Requires Google Cloud, not open source

ChRIS

http://chrisproject.org/

• prettiest UI
• Openshift
• Swift storage
• Schema blind, no enforcement of file types

Galaxy

https://usegalaxy.org/

• Most popular
• Does not use Docker
• File types can be denoted

CBrain

http://mcin.ca/technology/cbrain/

• No workflows (chain tools using directed acyclic graph)
• No visualization
• Upload/download using SFTP

Brainlife.io

https://brainlife.io/

VIP

https://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/vip/

• Very old (2013) yet surprisingly still in use
• No workflows
• No visualization
• Public instance is free to use
• Provides FreeSurfer v5.3.0 (recon-all)

Airavata

https://airavata.apache.org/

Notes incomplete.

Flywheel

https://flywheel.io

Is not open source.

Terra

https://terra.bio

Based on cromwell and Google Cloud Platform. Share Jupyter notebooks and customize VMS to run them.

Intro playlist on YouTube

Other

Apache Taverna, no longer maintained.

Not Relevant

These are meant for developers, not users. Workflows are coded up in a programming language (opposed to created in a web browser).

• Flyte