Calculating genomic distances in parallel using OpenMP
Abstract
By finding the corresponding shortest edit distance between two signed gene permutations, we can know the smallest number of insertions, deletions, and inversions required to change on string of genes into another, where insertion, deletion and inversion are the process of genome evolutions. However, it is NP-hard problem to compute the edit distance between two genomes. Marron et al proposed a polynomial-time approximation algorithm to compute (near) minimum edit distances under inversions, deletions, and unrestricted insertions. Our work is based on Marron's et al algorithm, which carries out lots of comparisons and sorting to calculate the edit distance. These comparisons and sorting are extremely time-consuming, and they result in the decrease of the efficiency. We believe the efficiency of the algorithm can be improved by parallelizing. We parallelize their algorithm via OpenMP on Intel C++ compiler for Linux 7.1, and compare three levels of parallelism: coarse grain, fine grain and combination of both. The experiments are conducted for a varying number of threads and length of the gene sequences. The experimental results have shown that either coarse grain parallelism or fine grain parallelism alone does not improve the performance of the algorithm very much, however, the combination of both fine grain and coarse grain parallelism have improve the performance to a great extent.
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/11567752_8
Publication Date
12-1-2005
Recommended Citation
Kolli, Vijaya Smitha, Hui Liu, Jieyue He, Michelle Hong Pan, and Yi Pan. "Calculating genomic distances in parallel using OpenMP." In Transactions on Computational Systems Biology II, pp. 113-123. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.
Journal Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
