Development of MapReduce and MPI programs for motif search

  • Mejdl Safran
  • , Saad Al-Qahtani
  • , Michelle Zhu
  • , Dunren Che

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Abstract

As one of the important problems in molecular biology, motif search is computationally expensive, especially when the size of DNA sequences is large. Extended from a graduate course project in parallel and distributed computing (PDC), this paper investigates two different programming frameworks, namely MapReduce and MPI on motif finding. We implemented a serial algorithm, a MapReduce based algorithm, and a MPI program to calculate the best motif in given DNA sequences. The experimental results demonstrate that our MPI program outperformed both the MapReduce-based algorithm and the serial program with superior efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages500-501
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781467365987
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Oct 2015
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC
Volume2015-October
ISSN (Print)1552-5244

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Algorithm
  • MPI
  • MapReduce
  • Motif
  • Parallel processing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Signal Processing

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