Paper Info
Title
Low-power portable devices for metagenomics analysis: Fog computing makes bioinformatics ready for the Internet of Things.
Abstract
Portable sequencing machines, such as the Oxford Nanopore MinION, are making the genome sequencing ubiquitous. This can be particularly interesting for identifying specific bacteria in air-filters or waters and for monitoring the microbioma composition in cultivated soils or in different animal samples, using a simple and portable approach. However, a main problem of these portable sequencing devices is that they stream huge amounts of data, which management can be actually challenging. Low-power System-on-Chip architectures represent a feasible way for designing a solution, based on the Fog computing paradigm, for processing locally the raw data, considering both the base calling step and the genome alignment part, and for sending only meaningful results over Internet. Cloud services can be then used to collect and integrate results in a Internet of Things framework, in order to trigger notifications or alarms and, in perspective, for more sophisticated applications based on statistical or machine learning approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.future.2018.05.010
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Metagenomics,Environmental genomics,Fog computing,Machine learning,Cloud computing,Internet of Things
Data science,Minion,Base calling,Nanopore sequencing,Computer science,Internet of Things,Raw data,Metagenomics,Cloud computing,The Internet,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
88
0167-739X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
7
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ivan Merelli129435.36
Lucia Morganti2175.02
Elena Corni3103.65
Carmelo Pellegrino410.36
Daniele Cesini5309.51
Luca Roverelli692.94
Gabriele Zereik792.61
Daniele D'Agostino813023.39