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ArticleGigaScience2020

MaRe: Processing Big Data with application containers on Apache Spark.

Marco Capuccini, Martin Dahlö, Salman Toor, Ola Spjuth

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Article in GigaScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Cloud-native distributed genomic pileup operations.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2023
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Marco CapucciniDepartment of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Box 337, 75105, Uppsala, Sweden.
Martin DahlöDepartment of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Box 591, 751 24, Uppsala, Sweden.
Salman ToorDepartment of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Box 337, 75105, Uppsala, Sweden.
Ola SpjuthDepartment of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Box 591, 751 24, Uppsala, Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLife science is increasingly driven by Big Data analytics, and the MapReduce programming model has been proven successful for data-intensive analyses. However, current MapReduce frameworks offer poor support for reusing existing processing tools in bioinformatics pipelines. Furthermore, these frameworks do not have native support for application containers, which are becoming popular in scientific data processing.

resultsHere we present MaRe, an open source programming library that introduces support for Docker containers in Apache Spark. Apache Spark and Docker are the MapReduce framework and container engine that have collected the largest open source community; thus, MaRe provides interoperability with the cutting-edge software ecosystem. We demonstrate MaRe on 2 data-intensive applications in life science, showing ease of use and scalability.

conclusionsMaRe enables scalable data-intensive processing in life science with Apache Spark and application containers. When compared with current best practices, which involve the use of workflow systems, MaRe has the advantage of providing data locality, ingestion from heterogeneous storage systems, and interactive processing. MaRe is generally applicable and available as open source software.

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Big DataDatabases, FactualSoftwareAlgorithmsComputational BiologyPolymorphism, Single NucleotideWorkflowApache Sparkapplication containersBig DataMapReduceworkflows

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PMID32369166
PMCPMC7199472

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