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Distributed-Memory Parallel Contig Generation for De Novo Long-Read Genome Assembly
Giulia Guidi, Gabriel Raulet, Daniel Rokhsar, Leonid Oliker, Katherine Yelick, Aydin Buluc
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De novo genome assembly, i.e., rebuilding the sequence of an unknown genome from redundant and erroneous short sequences, is a key but computationally intensive step in many genomics pipelines. The exponential growth of genomic data is increasing the computational demand and requires scalable, high-performance approaches. In this work, we present a novel distributed-memory algorithm that, from a string graph representation of the genome and using sparse matrices, generates the contig set, i.e., overlapping sequences that form a map representing a region of a chromosome. Using matrix abstraction, we mask branches in the string graph and compute the connected component to group genomic sequences that belong to the same linear chain (i.e., contig). Then, we perform multiway number partitioning to minimize the load imbalance in local assembly, i.e., concatenation of sequences from a given contig. Based on the assignment obtained by partitioning, we compute the induce subgraph function to redistribute sequences between processes, resulting in a set of local sparse matrices. Finally, we traverse each matrix using depth-first search to concatenate sequences. Our algorithm shows good scaling with parallel efficiency up to 80% on 128 nodes, resulting in uniform genome coverage and showing promising results in terms of assembly quality. Our contig generation algorithm localizes the assembly process to significantly reduce the amount of computation spent on this step. Our work is a step forward for efficient de novo long read assembly of large genomes in a distributed memory.
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