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Matt Wood
October 02, 2012
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Transcript
The New Genomics
[email protected]
Dr. Matt Wood
Hello
Hello
Data
DNA
Chromosome 11 : ACTN3 : rs1815739
Chromosome X : rs6625163
Chromosome 19 : FUT2 : rs601338
+0.25 Chromosome 15 : rs2472297
Chromosome 2 : rs10427255
TYPE II Chromosome 10 : rs7903146
Chromosome 1 : rs4481887
I know this, because...
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A T C G G T C C A G
G
A T C G G T C C A G
G A G C C A G G U C C Transcription
A T C G G T C C A G
G A G C C A G G U C C Translation Ser Glu Val Transcription
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Chromosome 11 : ACTN3 : rs1815739
Chromosome X : rs6625163
Chromosome 19 : FUT2 : rs601338
+0.25 Chromosome 15 : rs2472297
Chromosome 2 : rs10427255
TYPE II Chromosome 10 : rs7903146
Chromosome 1 : rs4481887
I know all that, because...
Human Genome Project
40 species ensembl.org
Compare species
Biological importance
Step change
Less time. Lower cost.
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Compare individuals
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Data generation costs are falling (pretty much everywhere)
Sequencing challenge X
Amazona vittata
Analytics challenge
Lots of data, Lots of uses, Lots of users, Lots
of locations
Cost
Analytics challenge X
Accessibility challenge
The New Genomics
Graceful. Beautiful.
Impossible to re-create
Snowflake Science
Reproducibility
Reproducibility scales science
Reproduce. Reuse. Remix.
Value++
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How do we get from here to there? 5PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY
OF
1. Use the gravity of data 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY OF
Increasingly large data collections
1000 Genomes Project: 200Tb
Challenging to obtain and manage
Expensive to experiment
Large barrier to reproducibility
Data size will increase
Data integration will increase
Move data to the users
Move data to the users X
Move tools to the data
Place data where it can consumed by tools
Place tools where they can access data
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Canonical source
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More data, more users, more uses, more locations
Cost and complexity
Cost and complexity kill reproducibility
Utility computing
Availability
Intel Xeon E5 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs
90 - 120k IOPS on SSDs
Pay-as-you-go
100% Reserved capacity
100% Reserved capacity On-demand
100% Reserved capacity On-demand
Spot instances
Name-your-price
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2. Ease of use is a pre-requisite 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY
OF
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/getting_users_p.html
Help overcome the suck threshold
Easy to embrace and extend
Choose the right abstraction for the user
$ ec2-run-instances
$ starcluster start
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Package and automate
Package and automate Amazon machine images, VM import
Package and automate Amazon machine images, VM import Deployment scripts,
CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet
Expert-as-a-service
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1000 Genomes Cloud BioLinux
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Your HiSeq data Illumina BaseSpace
DNA and RNA sequences Genomespace, Broad Institute at MIT
Data as a programmable resource
3. Reuse is as important as reproduction 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY
OF
Seven Deadly sins of Bioinformatics: http://www.slideshare.net/dullhunk/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-bioinformatics
Seven Deadly sins of Bioinformatics: http://www.slideshare.net/dullhunk/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-bioinformatics
Infonauts are hackers
They have their own way of working
The ‘Big Red Button’
Fire and forget reproduction is a good first step, but
limits longer term value.
Monolithic, one-stop-shop
Work well for intended purpose
Challenging to install, dependency heavy
Inflexible
Embrace infonauts as hackers
Small things. Loosely coupled.
Easier to reuse
Easier to integrate
Scale out
Cancer drug discovery: 50,000 cores < $1000 an hour Schrödinger
and CycleServer
4. Build for collaboration 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY OF
Workflows are memes
Reproduction is just the first step
Bill of materials: code, data, configuration, infrastructure
Full definition for reproduction
Utility computing provides a playground for data science
Code + AMI + custom datasets + public datasets +
databases + compute + result data
Code + AMI + custom datasets + public datasets +
databases + compute + result data
Code + AMI + custom datasets + public datasets +
databases + compute + result data
Code + AMI + custom datasets + public datasets +
databases + compute + result data
Package, automate, contribute.
Utility platform provides scale for production runs
5. Provenance is a first class object 5 PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY
OF
Versioning becomes really important
Especially in an active community
Doubly so with loosely coupled tools
Provenance metadata is a first class entity
Distributed provenance
5PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY OF
Remove constraints 5PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY OF
Accelerate science 5PRINCIPLES REPRODUCIBILITY OF
Chromosome 11 : ACTN3 : rs1815739
Chromosome X : rs6625163
Chromosome 19 : FUT2 : rs601338
+0.25 Chromosome 15 : rs2472297
Chromosome 2 : rs10427255
TYPE II Chromosome 10 : rs7903146
Chromosome 1 : rs4481887
Thank you aws.amazon.com @mza
[email protected]