Parallelization of functional flow to predict protein functions

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Protein-protein interaction networks provide important information about what the biological function of proteins whose roles are unknown might be in a cell. These interaction networks were analyzed by a variety of approaches by running them on a single computer and the roles of the proteins identified were used to predict the function of the proteins unidentified. The functional flow is an approach that takes the network connectivity, distance effect, topology of the network with local and global views into account. With these advantages, that the functional flow produces more accurate results on the prediction of protein functions was presented by the previos conducted researches. However, the application implemented for this approach could not be practically applied on the large and complex network produced for the complex species because of memory limitation. The purpose of this thesis is to provide a new application be implemented on the high computing performance where the application can be scaled on the large data sets. Therefore, Hadoop, one of the open source map/reduce environments, was installed on 18 hosts each of which has eight cores. Method; the first map/reduce job distributes the protein interaction network as a format which allows parallel distributed computing to all the worker nodes, the other map/reduce job generates flows for each known protein function and the role of the proteins unidentified are predicted by accumulating all of these generated flows. It has been observed in the experiments we performed that the application requiring high performance computing can be decomposed into worker nodes efficiently and the application can provide better performance as the resources increase.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20476
Graduate School of Informatics, Thesis

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E. Akkoyun, “Parallelization of functional flow to predict protein functions,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2011.
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