Here you can find a full report of about loading 62,000 samples for Genomics England Research environment.
The platform used for this case study consists on a Hadoop Cluster of 35 nodes (5 + 30) and a LSF queue system:
Node | #nodes | cores | memory (GB) |
---|---|---|---|
LSF queue node for load | 10 | 12 | 364 |
Hadoop master nodes | 5 | 28 | 216 |
Hadoop worker nodes | 30 | 28 | 216 |
The data of this case study contains a total of 64,078 samples divided in 4 different datasets.
Dataset | Alias | Files | File type | Samples | Samples per file | Variants |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rare Disease GRCh38 | RD38 | 16,591 | Multi sample VCF | 33,180 | 2.00 | 437,740,498 |
Cancer Germline GRCh38 | CG38 | 9,167 | Single sample VCF | 9,167 | 1.00 | 286,136,051 |
Cancer Somatic GRCh38 | CS38 | 9,589 | Somatic VCF | 9,589 | 1.00 | 398,402,166 |
Rare Disease GRCh37 | RD37 | 5,329 | Multi sample VCF | 12,142 | 2.28 | 298,763,059 |
Total | 40,676 | 64,078 | 1,421,041,774 |
Each dataset is loaded in OpenCGA as a study.
The files from Rare Disease studies (RD38 & RD37) contain more than one sample per file. In average, 2 samples per file.
The files from Cancer Germline studies (CG38) contain one sample per file. Compared with the Rare Disease, these files are smaller in size, therefore, the load is slightly faster.
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