PhenoMeNal Services Virtual Machine Image to facilitate the PhenoMeNal toolsets and pipelines, both locally and in the grid - D9.2.3

Description of the architecture of the service VMIs with user-facing web interfaces and how service VMIs performing the container orchestration are installed in the Virtual Research Environment (VRE). Stable releases are planned bi-annually, the first one in 2017.02. The chosen cloud and software architectures are well-aligned with emerging bioinformatics efforts for use in national and European scientific cloud infrastructures.