unfortunately, we have to store and make queryable all the raw data..
so it would be like 14 million rows x 300 / month = 4.2 billion rows /
month
= 50 billion rows per year..
i guess mysql would bog..
however, since these are tiling arrays with evenly spaced probes, one
can calculate the position
of each probe given the starting point and the number of probes from
the start.
could information be stored more efficiently if the probes where
compacted into groups of
10k or 100k? then we're talking about millions of rows instead of
billions.
i've heard that oracle can handle billions of rows of data, but i can't
imagine that its very fast
even if indexed properly..
-keith
Nicklas Nordborg wrote:
Keith Ching wrote:
Hi,
I am looking into using BASE2 to store ChIP-chip data from the NimbleGen
platform.
Each whole genome scan has 14 million probes, divided up into 38 arrays
of 370k probes each.
What is the feasibility of storing this information in BASE2? Say we
had 100+ whole genome scans.
Would it even be practical? Should I just store the raw datafiles as
file attachments? It would be nice
to have some compression built into the file attachments as this could
save 75% on the disk space as each
expt is 3 gigs or so.
Wow, that is really a lot of data. I wouldn't store that in the
database. It would suck the performance out of the entire application.
You could compress the files before you upload them to Base 2. Or, you
could let the operating system automatically compress the folder where
the file uploads are stored.
Note however, if you store the data in files, you will not be able to
use any of the existing plugins to analyze the data. If you want to do
that you will need to create a plugin that generates a more managable
data set from the files. We have created such a plugin for Affymetrix
files. See http://lev.thep.lu.se/trac/baseplugins/wiki/thep.lu.se.RMAExpress
for more information about it.
/Nicklas
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