Parallelization of ARACNe, an Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks

Autor: Uxía Casal, Jorge González-Domínguez, María J. Martín
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Proceedings, Vol 21, Iss 1, p 25 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2504-3900
DOI: 10.3390/proceedings2019021025
Popis: Gene regulatory networks are graphical representations of molecular regulators that interact with each other and with other substances in the cell to govern the gene expression. There are different computational approaches for the reverse engineering of these networks. Most of them require all gene-gene evaluations using different mathematical methods such as Pearson/Spearman correlation, Mutual Information or topology patterns, among others. The Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Accurate Cellular Networks (ARACNe) is one of the most effective and widely used tools to reconstruct gene regulatory networks. However, the high computational cost of ARACNe prevents its use over large biologic datasets. In this work, we present a hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallel implementation of ARACNe to accelerate its execution on multi-core clusters, obtaining a speedup of 430.46 using as input a dataset with 41,100 genes and 108 samples and 32 nodes (each of them with 24 cores).
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