EasyBin: Metagenomics Binning Services for Non-Specialists

Methma Piumini, Sandani Liyanage, Thilini Bogahawaththa, Indika Perera, Vijini Mallawaarachchi

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Abstract

Metagenomics is considered as one of the emerging areas in the field of bioinformatics. Binning is a key step carried out to characterise the composition of metagenomics samples. Even though there are many automated metagenomics binning tools, it is challenging to execute tools individually because a significant amount of time should be spent on installing, configuring and maintaining individual tools. Hence, unified web platforms that consist of multiple binning tools along with other complementary tools have been developed that are straightforward to use. However, none of these existing platforms provide a customisable and transparent workflow management system. Hence, we introduce EasyBin, a workflow management system for non-specialists which can model, execute, and monitor a metagenomics binning process with parallel process execution. Evaluation results show that EasyBin reports a mean SUS Score of 77.9 and gains a speedup ofx1.46 in workflow execution with parallel processing. EasyBin is open-source software available at https://bitbucket.org/easybin/easybin.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMERCon 2021 - 7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages687-692
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665437530
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jul 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2021 - Virtual, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Duration: 27 Jul 202129 Jul 2021

Publication series

NameMERCon 2021 - 7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, Proceedings

Conference

Conference7th International Multidisciplinary Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, MERCon 2021
Country/TerritorySri Lanka
CityVirtual, Moratuwa
Period27/07/2129/07/21

Keywords

  • GPU acceleration
  • Metagenomics binning
  • Parallelism
  • Tool support
  • Workflow management

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