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Nhan Ly-Trong1, Giuseppe M J Barca1, Bui Quang Minh1
1School of Computing, College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|September 1, 2023
概括
这项研究介绍了AliSim-HPC,这是一个新的高性能计算工具,用于更快的遗传序列模拟. 它大大缩短了大型数据集的模拟时间,使得先进的遗传学研究和机器学习应用成为可能.
科学领域:
- 计算生物学 计算生物学
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 人类遗传学 是一个学科.
背景情况:
- 序列模拟对于评估家族遗传学方法,假设测试和家族遗传学中的机器学习至关重要.
- 像AliSim这样的现有模拟器是有效的,但由于顺序实现,对于大型数据集是缓慢的.
- 平行化还没有被广泛应用于序列模拟,为大规模数据生成创造了瓶.
研究的目的:
- 开发一个高性能计算 (HPC) 版本的AliSim序列模拟器.
- 为了显著加速模拟大型多重序列对齐,用于遗传学分析.
- 为了实现更高效的培训数据的生成,用于机器学习应用在植物遗传学.
主要方法:
- 介绍了AliSim-HPC,一个并行序列模拟工具.
- 采用多核并行使用OpenMP进行无间隙对齐模拟.
- 通过消息传递接口 (MPI) 实现多CPU并行,以支持插入-删除模型.
主要成果:
- 在模拟100个大型无间隙对齐 (3万个序列,1百万个位点) 中实现了153倍的速度提升.
- 通过使用256个CPU内核,将模拟时间从一天以上缩短到11分钟.
- AliSim-HPC的MPI版本支持复杂的插入-删除模型,提高了其适用性.
结论:
- AliSim-HPC提供了一个高效和可扩展的解决方案,用于基因组序列模拟.
- 该工具大大减少了计算时间,促进了大规模的遗传学研究和ML应用.
- AliSim-HPC可以作为与IQ-TREE v2.2.3.3集成的开源软件提供.
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