GBOOST: a GPU-based tool for detecting gene-gene interactions in genome-wide case control studies.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Collecting millions of genetic variations is feasible with the advanced genotyping technology. With a huge amount of genetic variations data in hand, developing efficient algorithms to carry out the gene-gene interaction analysis in a timely manner has become one of the key problems in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Boolean operation-based screening and testing (BOOST), a recent work in GWAS, completes gene-gene interaction analysis in 2.5 days on a desktop computer. Compared with central processing units (CPUs), graphic processing units (GPUs) are highly parallel hardware and provide massive computing resources. We are, therefore, motivated to use GPUs to further speed up the analysis of gene-gene interactions.

Results

We implement the BOOST method based

SUBMITTER: Yung LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3105448 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature