SeQuiLa: an elastic, fast and scalable SQL-oriented solution for processing and querying genomic intervals.

Wiewiórka, Marek; Leśniewska, Anna; Szmurło, Agnieszka; Stępień, Kacper; Borowiak, Mateusz; Okoniewski, Michał; Gambin, Tomasz · Bioinformatics · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Efficient processing of large-scale genomic datasets has recently become possible due to the application of 'big data' technologies in bioinformatics pipelines. We present SeQuiLa-a distributed, ANSI SQL-compliant solution for speedy querying and processing of genomic intervals that is available as an Apache Spark package. Proposed range join strategy is significantly (∼22×) faster than the default Apache Spark implementation and outperforms other state-of-the-art tools for genomic intervals processing. The project is available at http://biodatageeks.org/sequila/. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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