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Searching for SNPs with cloud computing.
Genome biology - 1 Jan 2009
Langmead Ben, Schatz Michael C, Lin Jimmy, Pop Mihai, Salzberg Steven L
Abstract excerpt
As DNA sequencing outpaces improvements in computer speed, there is a critical need to accelerate tasks like alignment and SNP calling. Crossbow is a cloud-computing software tool that combines the aligner Bowtie and the SNP caller SOAPsnp. Executing in parallel using Hadoop, Crossbow analyzes data comprising 38-fold coverage of the human genome in three hours using a 320-CPU cluster rented from a cloud computing...
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