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Current Bioinformatics

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ISSN (Print): 1574-8936
ISSN (Online): 2212-392X

Optimizing I/O Cost and Managing Memory for Composition Vector Method Based on Correlation Matrix Calculation in Bioinformatics

Author(s): Anaththa P.D. Krishnajith, Wayne Kelly and Yu-Chu Tian

Volume 9, Issue 3, 2014

Page: [234 - 245] Pages: 12

DOI: 10.2174/1574893609666140516005327

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Abstract

The generation of a correlation matrix for set of genomic sequences is a common requirement in many bioinformatics problems such as phylogenetic analysis. Each sequence may be millions of bases long and there may be thousands of such sequences which we wish to compare, so not all sequences may fit into main memory at the same time. Each sequence needs to be compared with every other sequence, so we will generally need to page some sequences in and out more than once. In order to minimize execution time we need to minimize this I/O. This paper develops an approach for faster and scalable computing of large-size correlation matrices through the maximal exploitation of available memory and reducing the number of I/O operations. The approach is scalable in the sense that the same algorithms can be executed on different computing platforms with different amounts of memory and can be applied to different bioinformatics problems with different correlation matrix sizes. The significant performance improvement of the approach over previous work is demonstrated through benchmark examples.

Keywords: Bioinformatics computing, correlation matrix, memory management, phylogenetic analysis, scalable computing.


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