Data Access Control in the Cloud Computing Environment for Bioinformatics

Abstract

Bioinformatics is a branch of science that applies computational science in the biological world. In bioinformatics, large sizes of biological data (genome) are processed in the cloud computing platform. Due to the advantages of cloud computing, such as reduced cost scalability, high performance, unlimited storage and many more, the applications of cloud computing in bioinformatics are increasing exponentially. However, cloud computing has some disadvantages like security, privacy, transferability, etc. Among all these problems, access control is a critical issue in the cloud computing environment. The main objective of this paper is to present many access control models along with their advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, some of the popular cloud-based bioinformatics applications are also introduced for the benefit of researchers.