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From: William S Noble <wnoble@uw.edu>
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Research project in optimization of scientific computing software
To: Ugrad Advisor <ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.
Research project in optimization of scientific computing software
Segway is an open source software toolkit that automatically annotates massive collections of genomic data, helping biologists to make sense out of heterogeneous collections of experimental high-throughput sequencing data. Developed at the UW as part of the National Institutes of Health ENCODE Consortium, Segway is now in use in a variety of labs around the world. To increase the impact of this software and to make it more easily used by scientists who do not have access to large compute clusters, we aim to improve the parallelization of the code using a MapReduce strategy and migrate the software to a cloud-based bioinformatics platform at DNAnexus.com. Undergraduate students interested in helping with this effort should send a resume and transcript to Prof. Bill Noble (wnoble@uw.edu) in the Department of Genome Sciences.