Quantitative Biology > Genomics
[Submitted on 10 Oct 2019 (v1), revised 11 Oct 2019 (this version, v2), latest version 30 Apr 2022 (v4)]
Title:Sub-linear Sequence Search via a Repeated And Merged Bloom Filter (RAMBO)
View PDFAbstract:Whole-genome shotgun sequencing (WGS), especially that of microbial genomes, has been the core of recent research advances in large-scale comparative genomics. The data deluge has resulted in exponential growth in genomic datasets over the past years and has shown no sign of slowing down. Several recent attempts have been made to tame the computational burden of read classification and sequence search on these ultra large-scale datasets, including both raw reads and assembled genomes. A notable recent method is BItsliced Genomic Signature Index (BIGSI). It is a data-structure of array of Bloom Filters and offers very efficient query sequence search times. However, querying with BIGSI still requires probing Bloom Filters (or sets of bitslices) which scales linearly with the number of datasets. As a result, querying complexity of BIGSI scales linearly with the number of files in a dataset. In this paper, we propose a sequence search method based on Repeated and Merged BloOm Filter (RAMBO). Here the number of Bloom filter probes is significantly less than BIGSI due to sub-linear scaling for the same false-positive rate. Our idea is theoretically sound and inspired by the count-min sketch data structure, a popular streaming algorithm. RAMBO provides a significant improvement over BIGSI in terms of query time when evaluated on real genome datasets. Furthermore the insertion and query process supports parallelism. Due to the sub-linear scaling of query time, the larger the size and number of datasets, the bigger the gains are with RAMBO over BIGSI.
Submission history
From: Gaurav Gupta [view email][v1] Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:03:38 UTC (865 KB)
[v2] Fri, 11 Oct 2019 02:59:55 UTC (865 KB)
[v3] Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:29:08 UTC (1,793 KB)
[v4] Sat, 30 Apr 2022 20:39:34 UTC (289 KB)
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