Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
Genome Biol. 2009;10(11):R134. doi: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-11-r134. Epub 2009 Nov 20.
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 service for about $85. Crossbow is available from http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/crossbow/.
随着 DNA 测序技术的发展速度超过了计算机速度的提升,我们急需加速对齐和 SNP 呼叫等任务。Crossbow 是一个云计算软件工具,它结合了 aligner Bowtie 和 SNP 调用者 SOAPsnp。使用 Hadoop 并行执行,Crossbow 使用从云计算服务租用的 320 个 CPU 集群在三小时内分析了人类基因组 38 倍覆盖的数据,费用约为 85 美元。Crossbow 可从 http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/crossbow/ 获取。