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ArticleBioMed research international2014

Sequence alignment tools: one parallel pattern to rule them all?

Claudia Misale, Giulio Ferrero, Massimo Torquati, Marco Aldinucci

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Claudia MisaleComputer Science Department, University of Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3737-7373
Giulio FerreroSchool of Life and Health Sciences, University of Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4580-0680
Massimo TorquatiComputer Science Department, University of Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6323-3459
Marco AldinucciComputer Science Department, University of Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8788-0829

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Abstract

In this paper, we advocate high-level programming methodology for next generation sequencers (NGS) alignment tools for both productivity and absolute performance. We analyse the problem of parallel alignment and review the parallelisation strategies of the most popular alignment tools, which can all be abstracted to a single parallel paradigm. We compare these tools to their porting onto the FastFlow pattern-based programming framework, which provides programmers with high-level parallel patterns. By using a high-level approach, programmers are liberated from all complex aspects of parallel programming, such as synchronisation protocols, and task scheduling, gaining more possibility for seamless performance tuning. In this work, we show some use cases in which, by using a high-level approach for parallelising NGS tools, it is possible to obtain comparable or even better absolute performance for all used datasets.

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AlgorithmsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNASoftware

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PMID25147803
PMCPMC4131566

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