Title
Large-scale parallel genome assembler over cloud computing environment.
Abstract
The size of high throughput DNA sequencing data has already reached the terabyte scale. To manage this huge volume of data, many downstream sequencing applications started using locality-based computing over different cloud infrastructures to take advantage of elastic (pay as you go) resources at a lower cost. However, the locality-based programming model (e.g. MapReduce) is relatively new. Consequently, developing scalable data-intensive bioinformatics applications using this model and understanding the hardware environment that these applications require for good performance, both require further research. In this paper, we present a de Bruijn graph oriented Parallel Giraph-based Genome Assembler (GiGA), as well as the hardware platform required for its optimal performance. GiGA uses the power of Hadoop (MapReduce) and Giraph (large-scale graph analysis) to achieve high scalability over hundreds of compute nodes by collocating the computation and data. GiGA achieves significantly higher scalability with competitive assembly quality compared to contemporary parallel assemblers (e.g. ABySS and Contrail) over traditional HPC cluster. Moreover, we show that the performance of GiGA is significantly improved by using an SSD-based private cloud infrastructure over traditional HPC cluster. We observe that the performance of GiGA on 256 cores of this SSD-based cloud infrastructure closely matches that of 512 cores of traditional HPC cluster.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1142/S0219720017400030
JOURNAL OF BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Big data genome assembly,Hadoop,Giraph,traditional HPC cluster,cloud computing,solid state drive (SSD)
Locality,Programming paradigm,Giga-,Terabyte,Computer science,Parallel computing,Power graph analysis,De Bruijn graph,Bioinformatics,Cloud computing,Scalability,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
SP3
0219-7200
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arghya Kusum Das162.18
Praveen Kumar Koppa200.34
Sayan Goswami321.39
Richard Platania4103.26
Seung-Jong Park531931.12