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A parallel computational framework for ultra-large-scale sequence clustering analysis.


ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The rapid development of sequencing technology has led to an explosive accumulation of genomic data. Clustering is often the first step to be performed in sequence analysis. However, existing methods scale poorly with respect to the unprecedented growth of input data size. As high-performance computing systems are becoming widely accessible, it is highly desired that a clustering method can easily scale to handle large-scale sequence datasets by leveraging the power of parallel computing.

Results

In this paper, we introduce SLAD (Separation via Landmark-based Active Divisive clustering), a generic computational framework that can be used to parallelize various de novo operational taxonomic unit (OTU) picking methods and comes with theoretical guarantees on both accuracy and efficiency. The proposed framework was implemented on Apache Spark, which allows for easy and efficient utilization of parallel computing resources. Experiments performed on various datasets demonstrated that SLAD can significantly speed up a number of popular de novo OTU picking methods and meanwhile maintains the same level of accuracy. In particular, the experiment on the Earth Microbiome Project dataset (?2.2B reads, 437 GB) demonstrated the excellent scalability of the proposed method.

Availability and implementation

Open-source software for the proposed method is freely available at https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~yijunsun/lab/SLAD.html.

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Zheng W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6931356 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A parallel computational framework for ultra-large-scale sequence clustering analysis.

Zheng Wei W   Mao Qi Q   Genco Robert J RJ   Wactawski-Wende Jean J   Buck Michael M   Cai Yunpeng Y   Sun Yijun Y  

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20190201 3


<h4>Motivation</h4>The rapid development of sequencing technology has led to an explosive accumulation of genomic data. Clustering is often the first step to be performed in sequence analysis. However, existing methods scale poorly with respect to the unprecedented growth of input data size. As high-performance computing systems are becoming widely accessible, it is highly desired that a clustering method can easily scale to handle large-scale sequence datasets by leveraging the power of paralle  ...[more]

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