On 21/11/13 07:30 AM, Goor Sasson wrote:
> Hi Sébastien,
>
> I currently don't have the information regarding the distribution of the taxa 
> in the pooled metagenome.
> In case that the abundance doesn't follow some kind of a power law 
> distribution, would it
> affect the duration or correctness of the assembly ?

No, you abundances don't need to follow a power law.

>
> Thanks,
> Goor
> 2013/11/8 Sébastien Boisvert <sebastien.boisver...@ulaval.ca 
> <mailto:sebastien.boisver...@ulaval.ca>>
>
>     On 08/11/13 03:40 AM, Goor Sasson wrote:
>
>         Hi Sebastien & Adrian,
>
>            The Blacklight we consider to use is the one at Urbana Illinois 
> university.
>         (http://help.igb.illinois.edu/__Biocluster#Cluster___Specifications 
> <http://help.igb.illinois.edu/Biocluster#Cluster_Specifications>).
>         A rough estimation for the the total genome size is at least 5000 
> genomes.
>         Hopes that these details can shed some light.
>
>
>     Do you expect some sort of power law distribution ?
>
>
>     To summarize, you have one sample with 2.5 Gigabases of Illumina data 
> (probably one lane or something like that).
>     And that contains roughly 5000 bacterial genomes.
>
>     Is that correct ?
>
>
>     Also, the next version (2.3.1) will include a patch that will lower the 
> memory usage.
>     see https://github.com/sebhtml/__ray/issues/210 
> <https://github.com/sebhtml/ray/issues/210>
>
>
>         Thanks,
>         Goor
>
>
>         2013/11/6 Sébastien Boisvert <sebastien.boisvert.3@ulaval.__ca 
> <mailto:sebastien.boisver...@ulaval.ca> 
> <mailto:sebastien.boisvert.3@__ulaval.ca 
> <mailto:sebastien.boisver...@ulaval.ca>>>
>
>
>              On 06/11/13 09:49 AM, Goor Sasson wrote:
>
>                  Dear Mailing-List,
>
>
>              Hi,
>
>
>
>                      I've chosen to use Ray Meta in order to assemble reads 
> from a pooled metagenome that contains 2.5g of illumina  (HiSeq2500) 
> paired-end reads
>                  (read length 100bp, totalling ~250g bp).
>                  I need an gross estimation for the predicted execution time. 
> The computational platform is a Blacklight platform with ~400 cores (Xeon 
> X7542) with 2TB RAM.
>
>
>              Is it this Blacklight: 
> http://www.psc.edu/index.php/____computing-resources/__blacklight 
> <http://www.psc.edu/index.php/__computing-resources/blacklight> 
> <http://www.psc.edu/index.php/__computing-resources/blacklight 
> <http://www.psc.edu/index.php/computing-resources/blacklight>__> ?
>
>
>              What is the interconnect (the network) ?
>
>
>                  Thanks
>
>
>              As Adrian Pelin pointed out, it depends a lot of the genomic 
> content of your metagenome.
>
>              In our paper http://genomebiology.com/2012/____13/12/R122 
> <http://genomebiology.com/2012/__13/12/R122> 
> <http://genomebiology.com/__2012/13/12/R122 
> <http://genomebiology.com/2012/13/12/R122>> , we used 128 machines each with 
> 8 cores
>
>              (Xeon X5560). Each machine had 24 GiB of RAM memory, so that was 
> around 3 TiB of distributed memory.
>              It took ~15 hours to assemble metagenome containing 1000 
> bacterial genomes (power law abundances)
>              + human contaminations. Note that this 15 hours included also 
> the taxonomic profiling and so on.
>              Doing only an assembly will be shorter in time.
>
>              Obviously, a test that you can you before going for the whole 
> thing is:
>
>
>              mpiexec -n 400 Ray -test-network-only -o NetworkTest-1
>
>
>              Then, check the measured latency in NetworkTest-1/NetworkTest.txt
>
>
>
>              ---Sébastien
>
>
>
>


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