Title |
Parallel-META: efficient metagenomic data analysis based on high-performance computation
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Published in |
BMC Systems Biology, July 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1752-0509-6-s1-s16 |
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Authors |
Xiaoquan Su, Jian Xu, Kang Ning |
Abstract |
Metagenomics method directly sequences and analyses genome information from microbial communities. There are usually more than hundreds of genomes from different microbial species in the same community, and the main computational tasks for metagenomic data analyses include taxonomical and functional component examination of all genomes in the microbial community. Metagenomic data analysis is both data- and computation- intensive, which requires extensive computational power. Most of the current metagenomic data analysis softwares were designed to be used on a single computer or single computer clusters, which could not match with the fast increasing number of large metagenomic projects' computational requirements. Therefore, advanced computational methods and pipelines have to be developed to cope with such need for efficient analyses. |
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