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ArticlePloS one2015

Leveraging the power of high performance computing for next generation sequencing data analysis: tricks and twists from a high throughput exome workflow.

Amit Kawalia, Susanne Motameny, Stephan Wonczak, Holger Thiele, Lech Nieroda, Kamel Jabbari, Stefan Borowski, Vishal Sinha, Wilfried Gunia, Ulrich Lang and 2 more

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Amit KawaliaCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Susanne MotamenyCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Stephan WonczakRegional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Holger ThieleCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Lech NierodaRegional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Kamel JabbariCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Stefan BorowskiRegional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Vishal SinhaCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Wilfried GuniaCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Ulrich LangRegional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Viktor AchterRegional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Peter NürnbergCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Next generation sequencing (NGS) has been a great success and is now a standard method of research in the life sciences. With this technology, dozens of whole genomes or hundreds of exomes can be sequenced in rather short time, producing huge amounts of data. Complex bioinformatics analyses are required to turn these data into scientific findings. In order to run these analyses fast, automated workflows implemented on high performance computers are state of the art. While providing sufficient compute power and storage to meet the NGS data challenge, high performance computing (HPC) systems require special care when utilized for high throughput processing. This is especially true if the HPC system is shared by different users. Here, stability, robustness and maintainability are as important for automated workflows as speed and throughput. To achieve all of these aims, dedicated solutions have to be developed. In this paper, we present the tricks and twists that we utilized in the implementation of our exome data processing workflow. It may serve as a guideline for other high throughput data analysis projects using a similar infrastructure. The code implementing our solutions is provided in the supporting information files.

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Computing MethodologiesComputational BiologyElectronic Data ProcessingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansSequence Analysis, DNAWorkflow

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PMID25942438
PMCPMC4420499

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