An Overview of Multiple Sequence Alignments and Cloud Computing in Bioinformatics

Table 2

Cloud computing deployment models.

Deployment model	Description
Public	A cloud infrastructure that is owned by a cloud provider, who made resources such as infrastructure, software, and platform available to general public for “pay-per-use” basis, via Internet.
Private	A cloud which is owned and used by a single organisation. This model provides more security measures in comparison to other models.
Community	A cloud which is shared amongst several users or organizations.
Hybrid	A cloud that is a combination of public, community, and private clouds.