Table 2 Summary of cost information.

From: A cloud-based workflow to quantify transcript-expression levels in public cancer compendia

Expense categorya

CCLE (cluster)

CCLE (preemptible)

TCGA (breast, lung)

TCGA (other cancer types)

Data transfer

$0.02

$0.08

$0.10

$0.70

Data storage

$111.27

$25.48

$66.10

373.08

Computing nodes

$605.16

$338.09

$95.75

$520.80

Miscellaneous

$0.07

$0.57

$1.47

$8.12

Total cost

$716.52

$364.22

$163.42

$902.07

Cost per sample

$0.767

$0.390

$0.090

$0.094

  1. aWe obtained cost information for the Google Cloud Platform and assigned expenses to high-level categories.
  2. All values are in US Dollars (rounded to the nearest cent). All TCGA samples were processed using preemptible VMs. There was no charge for the time required to spinup VMs, pull images, localize files, or delocalize files.
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