The Windows Azure Platform is a Microsoft cloud platform used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft data centers. wikipedia.org

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. wikipedia.org

Terraform provides a common configuration to launch infrastructure

Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. wikipedia.org

DevOps is an emerging set of principles, methods and practices for communication, collaboration and integration between software development (application/software engineering) and IT operations (systems administration/infrastructure) professionals. wikipedia.org

Automation or automatic control, is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching in telephone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft and other applications with minimal or reduced human intervention. wikipedia.org

A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously-growing list of data records hardened against tampering and revision. wikipedia.org

Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications that was originally designed by Google and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. wikipedia.org