This document discusses connecting Chipster, an interactive genome browser, to the cloud. It describes how Chipster's loosely coupled, message-oriented architecture makes it well-suited for the cloud. The document then outlines a proposal to preprocess genomic data using Hadoop in the cloud to generate summaries, which would be queried by the genome browser for faster, more scalable visualizations while reducing disk seeks. The goal is to leverage cheap cloud resources to improve the user experience of data analysis and visualization.