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GENIE: a software package for gene-gene interaction analysis in genetic association studies using multiple GPU or CPU cores

Satish Chikkagoudar, Kai Wang, Mingyao Li
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
BMC research notes, Vol. 4, No. 1. (26 May 2011)

@article{chikkagoudar2011genie,

   title={GENIE: a software package for gene-gene interaction analysis in genetic association studies using multiple GPU or CPU cores},

   author={Chikkagoudar, S. and Wang, K. and Li, M.},

   journal={BMC Research Notes},

   volume={4},

   number={1},

   pages={158},

   year={2011},

   publisher={BioMed Central Ltd}

}

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BACKGROUND: Gene-gene interaction analysis in genetic association studies is computationally intensive when a large number of SNPs are involved. Most of the latest Central Processing Units (CPUs) have multiple cores, whereas Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) also have hundreds of cores and have been recently used to implement faster scientific software. However, currently there are no genetic analysis software packages that allow users to fully utilize the computing power of these multi-core devices for genetic interaction analysis for binary traits. FINDINGS: Here we present a novel software package GENIE, which utilizes the power of multiple GPU or CPU processor cores to parallelize the interaction analysis. GENIE reads an entire genetic association study dataset into memory and partitions the dataset into fragments with non-overlapping sets of SNPs. For each fragment, GENIE analyzes: 1) the interaction of SNPs within it in parallel, and 2) the interaction between the SNPs of the current fragment and other fragments in parallel. We tested GENIE on a large-scale candidate gene study on high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Using an NVIDIA Tesla C1060 graphics card, the GPU mode of GENIE achieves a speedup of 27 times over its single-core CPU mode run. CONCLUSIONS: GENIE is open-source, economical, user-friendly, and scalable. Since the computing power and memory capacity of graphics cards are increasing rapidly while their cost is going down, we anticipate that GENIE will achieve greater speedups with faster GPU cards. Documentation, source code, and precompiled binaries can be downloaded from http://www.cceb.upenn.edu/~mli/software/GENIE/.
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