This document discusses building a "discovery cloud" to accelerate scientific discovery through on-demand computing. It proposes identifying time-consuming research activities that can be automated and outsourced as software-as-a-service. This would achieve economies of scale through leveraging infrastructure-as-a-service. The goal is to create a great user experience for scientific data management similar to consumer services like Dropbox. It also discusses integrating services like Globus for data management and Galaxy for analysis to provide flexible and scalable genomics analysis.