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FastMEDUSA: a parallelized tool to infer gene regulatory networks
Serdar Bozdag1, Aiguo Li, Stefan Wuchty
1Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Motivation:
In order to construct gene regulatory networks of higher organisms from gene expression and promoter sequence data efficiently, we developed FastMEDUSA. In this parallelized version of the regulatory network-modeling tool MEDUSA, expression and sequence data are shared among a user-defined number of processors on a single multi-core machine or cluster. Our results show that FastMEDUSA allows a more efficient utilization of computational resources. While the determination of a regulatory network of brain tumor in Homo sapiens takes 12 days with MEDUSA, FastMEDUSA obtained the same results in 6 h by utilizing 100 processors.
Availability:
Source code and documentation of FastMEDUSA are available at https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/NOBbioinf/FastMEDUSA
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