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Efficient parallel algorithms for error correction and transcriptome assembly of biological sequences
Efficient parallel algorithms for error correction and transcriptome assembly of biological sequences
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Sachdeva, Vipin
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Bader, David A.
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Next-generation sequencing technologies have led to a big data age in biology. Since the sequencing of the human genome, the primary bottleneck has steadily moved from collection to storage and analysis of the data. The primary contributions of this dissertation are design and implementation of novel parallel algorithms for two important problems in bioinformatics – error-correction and transcriptome assembly. For error-correction, we focused on k-mer spectrum based error-correction application called Reptile. We designed a novel distributed memory algorithm that divided the k-mer and tiles amongst the processing ranks. This allows any hardware with any memory size per node to be employed for error-correction using Reptile’s algorithm, irrespective of the size of the dataset. Our implementational achieved highly scalable results for E.Coli, Drosophila as well as the human datasets which consisted of 1.55 billion reads. Besides an algorithm that distributes k-mers and tiles between ranks, we have also implemented numerous heuristics that are useful to adjust the algorithm based on the hardware traits. We also implemented an extension of our parallel algorithm further by using pre-generating tiles and using collective messages to reduce the number of point to point messages for error-correction. Further extensions of this work have focused to create a library for distributed k-mer processing which has applications to problems in metagenomics. For transcriptome assembly, we have implemented a hybrid MPI-OpenMP approach for Chrysalis, which is part of the Trinity pipeline. Chrysalis clusters minimally overlapping contigs obtained from the prior module in Trinity called Inchworm. With this parallelization, we were able to reduce the runtime of the Chrysalis step of the Trinity workflow from over 50 hours to less than 5 hours for the sugarbeet dataset. We also employed this implementation to complete transcriptome of a 1.5 billion reads dataset pooled from different
bread wheat cultivars. Furthermore, we have also implemented a MapReduce based approach to clustering k-mers which has application to the parallelization of the Inchworm module of Trinity. This implementation is a significant step towards making de novo transcriptome assembly feasible for ever bigger transcriptome datasets.
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2018-05-29
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