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A divide-and-conquer strategy to solve the out-of-memory problem of processing thousands of Affymetrix microarrays.

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Lee, C-J; Fu, D; Du, P; Jiang, H; Lin, SM; Kibbe, W
Published in: Int J Comput Biol Drug Des
2008

Out-of-memory problem was frequently encountered when processing thousands of CEL files using Bioconductor. We propose a divide-and-conquer strategy combined with randomised resampling to solve this problem. The CAMDA 2007 META-analysis data set which contains 5896 CEL files was used to test the approach on a typical commodity computer cluster by running established pre-processing algorithms for Affymetrix arrays in the Bioconductor package. The results were validated against a golden standard obtained by using a supercomputer. In addition to the performance improvement, the general divide-and-conquer strategy can be applied to any other normalisation algorithms without modifying the underlying implementation.

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Int J Comput Biol Drug Des

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1756-0756

Publication Date

2008

Volume

1

Issue

4

Start / End Page

396 / 405

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Problem Solving
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
  • Humans
  • Equipment Design
  • Computers
  • Computer Storage Devices
  • Computational Biology
  • Biostatistics
  • 3214 Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
  • 3102 Bioinformatics and computational biology
 

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Lee, C.-J., Fu, D., Du, P., Jiang, H., Lin, S. M., & Kibbe, W. (2008). A divide-and-conquer strategy to solve the out-of-memory problem of processing thousands of Affymetrix microarrays. Int J Comput Biol Drug Des, 1(4), 396–405. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijcbdd.2008.022209
Lee, Chia-Ju, Dong Fu, Pan Du, Hongmei Jiang, Simon M. Lin, and Warren Kibbe. “A divide-and-conquer strategy to solve the out-of-memory problem of processing thousands of Affymetrix microarrays.Int J Comput Biol Drug Des 1, no. 4 (2008): 396–405. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijcbdd.2008.022209.
Lee C-J, Fu D, Du P, Jiang H, Lin SM, Kibbe W. A divide-and-conquer strategy to solve the out-of-memory problem of processing thousands of Affymetrix microarrays. Int J Comput Biol Drug Des. 2008;1(4):396–405.
Lee, Chia-Ju, et al. “A divide-and-conquer strategy to solve the out-of-memory problem of processing thousands of Affymetrix microarrays.Int J Comput Biol Drug Des, vol. 1, no. 4, 2008, pp. 396–405. Pubmed, doi:10.1504/ijcbdd.2008.022209.
Lee C-J, Fu D, Du P, Jiang H, Lin SM, Kibbe W. A divide-and-conquer strategy to solve the out-of-memory problem of processing thousands of Affymetrix microarrays. Int J Comput Biol Drug Des. 2008;1(4):396–405.
Journal cover image

Published In

Int J Comput Biol Drug Des

DOI

ISSN

1756-0756

Publication Date

2008

Volume

1

Issue

4

Start / End Page

396 / 405

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Problem Solving
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
  • Humans
  • Equipment Design
  • Computers
  • Computer Storage Devices
  • Computational Biology
  • Biostatistics
  • 3214 Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
  • 3102 Bioinformatics and computational biology