Enabling Large-Scale Bioinformatics Data Analysis with Cloud Computing

The petabyte scale of the Big Data generation in bioinformatics requires the introduction of advanced computational techniques to enable efficient knowledge discovery from data. Many data analysis tools in bioinformatics have been developed but few have been adapted to take advantage of high perform...

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Published in:2012 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications pp. 640 - 645
Main Authors: Karlsson, J., Torreno, O., Ramet, D., Klambauer, G., Cano, M., Trelles, O.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.07.2012
Subjects:
Benchmark testing
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Cloud computing
Computer architecture
Educational institutions
Map Reduce
Schedules
ISBN:1467316318, 9781467316316
ISSN:2158-9178
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Summary:The petabyte scale of the Big Data generation in bioinformatics requires the introduction of advanced computational techniques to enable efficient knowledge discovery from data. Many data analysis tools in bioinformatics have been developed but few have been adapted to take advantage of high performance computing (HPC) resources. For some of these tools, an attractive option is to employ a map/reduce strategy. On the other hand, Cloud Computing could be an important platform to run such tools in parallel because it provides on-demand, elastic computational resources. This paper presents a software suite for Microsoft Azure which supports legacy software (without modifications of the algorithm). We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach by benchmarking a typical bioinformatics tool, namely dotplot.
ISBN:1467316318
9781467316316
ISSN:2158-9178
DOI:10.1109/ISPA.2012.95