Damming the genomic data flood using a comprehensive analysis and storage data structure.

ABSTRACT: Data generation, driven by rapid advances in genomic technologies, is fast outpacing our analysis capabilities. Faced with this flood of data, more hardware and software resources are added to accommodate data sets whose structure has not specifically been designed for analysis. This leads to unnecessarily lengthy processing times and excessive data handling and storage costs. Current efforts to address this have centered on developing new indexing schemas and analysis algorithms, whereas the root of the problem lies in the format of the data itself. We have developed a new data structure for storing and analyzing genotype and phenotype data. By leveraging data normalization techniques, database management system capabilities and the use of a novel multi-table, multidimensional database st

SUBMITTER: Bouffard M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3004464 | biostudies-literature | 2010

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature