Article
VariantSpark: population scale clustering of genotype information.
BMC genomics - 10 Dec 2015
O'Brien Aidan R, Saunders Neil F W, Guo Yi, Buske Fabian A, Scott Rodney J, Bauer Denis C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genomic information is increasingly used in medical practice giving rise to the need for efficient analysis methodology able to cope with thousands of individuals and millions of variants. The widely used Hadoop MapReduce architecture and associated machine learning library, Mahout, provide the means for tackling computationally challenging tasks. However, many genomic analyses do not fit the...
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